shipping records for ssCity of London 1855

[lyndyloo6]

I am looking for help to access the shipping records of the ss City of London in 1855.  It sailed to the Crimea and supplied donkeys and the  like.  I am trying to trace William Allan (Aberdeen) who died 8/6/1855 but not sure if he died aboard the ship or in anther location.

Thanks in anticipation
Lynda

[sancti]

Where did you get his death info?

[lyndyloo6]

from his inventory in Aberdeen....I am looking to see if he died in GB or on board his ship and where to get details....if  can...

Lynda

[sancti]

Is his death on Scotlandspeople?

[lyndyloo6]

no...I have not found it or in the Marine returns.....

[sancti]

There are a few deaths in the index for that year

What age was he?

What was his mother's name?

[lyndyloo6]

That part of my problem..I dont know who his parents are....the only info I have is that he married Catherine Carnegie born Bervie c1817, or C1807..(I have a birth cert for her in 1807, but realise htat she may have been a 'second ' Catherine born to the family)  The reason that I say that is that she was 64 on her death cert.  The married in St Clements Parish on 30/06/1842.  I have no other info other than what I have posted about William Allan.

[Flattybasher9]

One thing that confuses me is that Scotlands People does not seem to have the birth, and if she was 64 at the time of her death in 1881, then she would have been born in 1817.

Regards

Malky

[lyndyloo6]

it confuses me as well..personally I think she knocked 10 years off as I have hunted for a death of Catherine between 1807 and 1817 to no avail.... so I think she be 74 when she died, or maybe William was younger than she was so she knocked a few years off....very confusing when you are trying to track them all....I have had this one on the back burner for a while as I have lost their son John as well...he is my 2 x gt grandfather and he seem to be alive when his daughter Susan is born in March 1880 and his wife is a widow  in the 1881 census....no trace.  He was a ships carpenter, but I am not sure if he would have been aboard a ship or on land.