White Jacket of Liverpool

[mckha489]

In the newspapers on find my past
I’ve put Trevellick into surname, and white jacket in the additional field


Found that the OCR sometimes has Trevelliok

[ryan37]

Thanks what does travellick mean?

Ryan

[mckha489]

The name of the captain of the vessel 

[ryan37]

Amazing how did you find that out?

[mckha489]

I started out search8ng for white jacket on its own - hopeless
Added Calcutta and I found it mentioned in Lloyd’s lists which always has the Captains name next to it (should have looked there first lol). Then went back to looking in the newspapers with the name plus ship. many more results.
Am now side tracked into reading about cholera. There was obviously a lot of it about in 1865

[mckha489]

It really seems that if someone dies of cholera onboard ship then the ship is quarantined on arrival but there is no mention of that for the WJ that I can see. Perhaps if there was already cholera in the port they didnt bother

[ryan37]

Thanks for your help , it says in another article I found that the crew were sent ashore to hospital and a townsman sent home
The news but it was wrong about James
Dying ,there had been a good few deaths I think

Very interesting life must have been so tough back then

Ryan

[mckha489]

Yes. You just have to read the old newspapers and a few death certificates to realise how hit and miss life was, And yet people these days don’t want their water supply chlorinated nor to have vaccinations.

[ryan37]

Exactly can you see my post from
A few days ago in the common room about William McDonald ss azalea ?

Can you offer any help on that ?

Ryan