Greenock Bombing

[brycewj]

Hi Anne,
Thanks, I did know about the CWGC.  The other Bryce's besides Feliciana are not relatives. I would think Gunner Peter Bryce lost most, if not all of his family...poor guy!
Best regards,
Bill

[Kennedy1]

Can anybody tell me where I would find out about the Murray family connected to Baker st area Greenock during the war, and if any of them where casualties.
Shirley

[apanderson]

Hello Shirley,

Welcome to Rootschat!

If you go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 'Debt of Honour' Database ( http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14 ) and type in details, you'll get a list of all Civilian Casualties.

Surname Field - Type in Murray
Initials - Leave Blank
War - WW2
Year of Death - 1939 - 1947
Force - Choose 'Civilian'
Nationality - Choose 'UK'

This will bring up all the Murrays.

You'll have to look for the 'Glasgow City' ones and see if any of them 'belong' to you.

Anne

[Gillian Mauchan]

Hi

Thanks for this link did'nt realise CWGC listed civilian deaths - my great uncle Ian Mauchan was one of the casualties of the bombing - he was injured at a sugar refinery and later died
Regards
Gillian

[Kennedy1]

thank you apanderson a most useful site, doesn't appear they died in the bombings.

regards Kennedy 1

[lindaangus]

I have been searching for some time for the death of a relative Daisy McVicar Kennedy, who would have been my step aunt.  By a fluke I found her on Scotlands people, only to find that she had died aged 11 on the night of 6/05/1941.  Buried under rubble.

I googled civilian casualties which brought me to this string, and I was able to use the link to CWG. on printing off Kennedy's in an attempt to find out why she was where she was, I discovered that my grandmother had another daughter, also killed at the same address.  Jean Mills Kennedy was eight.  The two death certificates on Scotland's people were filled in slightly differently and I discovered that in fact it was there normal place of residence: Belleville Street, one of the worst hit areas according to the Blitz report   I also found on google some time ago. ("on the run" Strathclyde Fire and Rescue service- retired employees association magazine)  Also terrible pictures of Ladyburn Buildings where my father was born.

[elaine447]

hi lindaangus
the picture on that site is'nt Ladyburn buildings
its Ladyburn street
these tenements were demolished and Prefabs put up to house
the people who lived in there
the ones on the other side of the street still exist now although they
have all been modernised
Elaine

[LizzieW]

Slightly off topic, but as an English person I always thought Greenock was pronounced Grenock (e as in Glen) , however, this week in relation to the Libyan bomber being released from Greenock prison due to his terminal illness, all radio/TV announcers have been pronouncing the word Greenock (Green as in the colour).

Please put me out of my misery and tell me how it is pronounced in Scotland.

Lizzie

[elaine447]

Hi Lizzie
it is pronounced
Green as in colour ock
Elaine