Sirius Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[Tephra]

Welcome to this weeks Scavenger Hunt and we have one you can really get your teeth into.   

Good Luck and Good Hunting

Barbara

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We started to research the Callison (sometimes spelt Calleson) family tree to find out if they originally came from Denmark.  This rumour is wide spread in the family and we have found some relations via Genes Reunited that say the same.  Unfortunately we have been stuck for many years and do not know what to try now.  We will give details of what we have tried, after giving you the information we have relevant to the furthest point we have got back to.

Peter Callison -  the only information we have is from his sons marriage certificate which shows him as a mariner, could have been born late 1700's.  His first son Peter Frederick Callison also a mariner married Jane Townsend on the 4th August 1842 in Wallsend, Tynemouth, North Shields, they had Mary Jane Calleson, born 3rd November 1844, Tynemouth, Maria Calleson, born 16th November 1846, Bell Street, North Shields, Robert Townsend Calleson, born 7th July 1849, Bell Street, North Shields, died 11th January 1852, and second son called Robert Townsend Calleson, born 30th September 1855, North Shields.  On the 1851 census Jane is shown as head of the household, maybe Peter was at sea.  We are unable to find a death for Peter Frederick Callison, but his wife Jane remarried at St Peters Church, Wallsend on the 1st June 1857 she is shown as a widow.

Peter Callisons second son John, also a mariner, born around 1818, died 16th April 1853, Greenbank, St. George in the East, apparently he had a coroners warrant and death recorded as drowned, but we are unable to find a death certificate, he is shown on the 1851 census as born in The Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, he married Emma Rae on the 8th June 1846 in St George in the East, Middlesex, at the time of the marriage his residence was Old Gravel Lane, St George in the East. 

John and Emma had four children, James Scott Rae Callison, born 2nd December 1847, 38 Bett Street, St. George in the East, died 4th July 1854, John Callison, born 28th April 1849, 20 Spring Street, Shadwell & Wapping, Middlesex, Henry William Callison, born 28th August 1851, 7 Lower Gun Alley, St George in the East, Middlesex died 23rd July 1852 and Andrew Peter Callison, born 9th November 1852, 7 Lower Gun Alley.   

We have looked through all the deaths at The Family Records Centre in London, unable to find a death for Peter Callison and his two sons in the books.  Various people on rootschat have tried to look up deaths at sea, The National Archives checked for mariners tickets for Callisons and Callesons, but they did not find any, also unable to find Peter Callison or his son Peter Frederick on the 1841 or 1851 census.

Could you give us some ideas on what else we could try to get further back, or find out any information that might help us to find out if the Danish roots are true.

Thanks and regards
Sirius

[toni*]

Hi Sirius 
Lets see if we can help

[toni*]

a death certificate is issued to act as a licence to allow the undertaker to dispose of a body - without this a funeral could not take place
 and any monies cannot be transfered to the next of kin usually the spouse , children or parents

if the body was lost at sea a funeral would not need to take place and a person who is missing can be assumed as dead after 7 years which would then allow the monies to be transferered to the next of kin

an inquest would have to take palce and a warrant issued by the coroner, (no need for a death cert as there was no body to dispose of) this seems to be what has happened in the case of Peters second son John

the inquest would be reported in the paper.

[toni*]

Have you checked the overseas BMD this can be sourced on familyrelatives.com - no informtaion from Familyrelatives.com can be posted on here as they claim to hold the copyright to everything on thier site- really its just their database that is copyrighted but we must play ball withthe mods and copyright editor on here

[jaywit]

The naming of John and  Emma's children suggests a Scottish link, but I guess Emma with a name like Rae was of Scottish descent.
What I do in these circumstances is look at 1851 for the oldest male Callisons and see where they were born.
I can find one born 1779 in Paisley Scotland, the others appear to have been born around the east and south coast of England, Yorkshire, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire.
There is also a cluster born in Ireland, one saying Armagh.
So a maritime link looks possible with a number if them.

Edit I forgot to add there are a few born Lancashire/Cumbria, but again coastal counties.

[toni*]

east and south coast of England, Yorkshire, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire..

Coast being the operative word - with them being Mariners

Lesanne has a family of Mariners - the whole family went aboard the vessel including just youngsters - its quite a sad story as some drowned in a storm

[jaywit]

Looking on FamilySearch there is one male named Calleson born Denmark on the 1880 USA census and the soundex throws up Carlsen and variants for Denmark itself.

[toni*]

I dont know if the naming pattern for Sweden and Iceland extended into Denmark?

bascially i will use my great grandmother for thisn example as she has since deceased so Dorothy was Fannys Daughter so she would be Dorothy Fannysdottier (Icelandic for Daugher) if she was a boy (called Dorothy ) she would be Dorothy Alfredsson (Alfreds Son)

so possibly would the first record we have of Peter Callison father be called Calli?

[Tephra]

Perhaps it could have been Carl.........and the names been twisted a little.   With the lilt in the Danish or Swedish accent it could quite easily have been mistaken for Call-e-son