Cockenzie Fishing Disaster 1890 Loss of The Brothers ..Hunnam family

[Portonian]

Whilst researching part of my tree I came across this site with images and other information relating to James and William Hunnam who were lost with their younger brother Thomas in November 1890 off of Yarmouth on FV The Brothers.

http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?field=who&searchterm=%22James+Hunnam%22&searchdb=scran

I thought it may be of interest to anyone researching this family. There are various spellings of the name which doesnt help when researching Scotlands People. Wildcards help.

Parents of the three brothers were William Hunnam/Hannam and Jane Donaldson both born c 1812.

[hdw]

The name Hunnam reminded me that my grandfather's two brothers were in the crew of the steam-drifter "Nancy Hunnam" before WWI. I come from Cellardyke in the East Neuk of Fife, formerly home to the crews of the Anstruther fishing fleet, and I have a photo of the crew sitting on the deck of that boat at Yarmouth before the war. I used that photo in a book I wrote about my home town in the 1980s.

I knew the skipper only had her on loan at the time and didn't know where her home port was, but good old Google led me to a site where I learned that she was built at Eyemouth and operated out of North Shields, and was sunk by a U-boat in 1916.

http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/4309.html

I wonder who Nancy Hunnam was?

Harry