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Oh wow! That's amazing. We knew Frederick was a painter, we have one of his pictures too. It is signed by him and dated 1910 and is of a cottage.

Frederick and Lucy are our connection then! They also had a brother Alfred. Lucy Meginn is my great, great grandmther. From what I discovered, Joseph Meginn married Caroline Yates and her parents were Thomas and Lucy Yates. The mother lived with Joseph and Caroline into her old age. Caroline's grandfather was a Captain Bolton and there is some connection to a Windle estate. My mother told me she had heard family stories of there being money there and that Caroline had been entitled to a portion of the estate but didn't get any of it.

I have Joseph Meginn's parents as Lawrence and Margaret and found that Lawrence was born in Castleblaney and was a painter. He died in Liverpool in the workhouse so I assume he was the one to go to England from Ireland first and maybe ended up hitting hard times.

From family stories, I know Joseph Meginn was generally considered not up to much by the rest of the family. I think he may have been an alcoholic and lost a lot of the family's money. We have a personal account written by a relative of the goings on but from what I can remember, I think he and Caroline owned a pub/inn at some point and he reportedly drank away their money!

I'd love to know any family stories you have about the Meginns and if you have been able to trace any further back than Lawrence and Margaret. It's so great you got in touch! Do you know is there a way we can privately message each other on this site?

Thanks so much for that Seaweed. Some of that information I already have. I'm particularly intrigued by the fact that some reports have my ancestor as being a casualty of the torpedoed Diplomat, while I know for a fact that he survived this as I had a great aunt who recalled 'he was never the same after he was torpedoed', having suffered injuries, but survived. It seems he never got over the loss of his men. I would be interested to see the incident report....

How did you know which page to look for?

Hi,

I have an ancestor who was a captain in the merchant navy during both world wars. He captained a ship called the Diplomat which was torpedoed and sunk.

Does anyone know how I would access any records regarding the merchant navy? I would love to find more details about his service.

Many thanks.

Hi, would have lived around Merseyside/Liverpool. I'm thinking it might be the son of the ancestor I thought it was, due to the discrepancy in dates now....