Titanic-employee Harland & wolff

[RedCoat]

We have just learned that my wifes grandfather worked for Harland & Wolff, from about 1908 to 1914.  Since that includes the time the TITANIC was built, there is a good chance that he worked on these ships.  Is there somewhere a person can access the names of employees for H&W who worked on the Titanic??

[RJ_Paton]

Have a look at this other forum
http://www.titanic-titanic.com/phpBB2/index.php

they appear to specialise on the Titanic and someone there may be able to assist further.

[RedCoat]

Thanks, went to that website and it appears from somebody asking the same question as I did, that there are no lists of people that worked on the ship.  I have since written Harland & Wolff and am asking them to confirm he was in fact an employee.  Nothing further required. thanks

[eddiec]

Check with PRONI.

As far as I am aware they now hold the old records from harland & Wolff.

I am not sure if the 100 year rule applies to them though.

[Christopher]

Hiya RedCoat,

Eddie's right. PRONI have a Harland and Wolff Archive D/2805 [/url]  It consists of about 2,000 files, 200 volumes and 16,000 documents 1861-1987. The records filled two cars and a van. PRONI's article gives a brilliant description of the problems in classifying their records.

Chris

[Bob2399]

Apologies from me for jumping into this thread. My granddad, James McGrath died following an accident at Harland & Wolff on 11 Sept 1940. He fell from the staging. I have tried to contact H&W to no avail. Would there be an account of his accident in the archives at PRONI do you think
Bob

[Christopher]

Hiya Bob if PRONI have catagorised all H & W's records there should be accident report books. I'm not certain when Health and Safety regulations and such like came into being but I'd imagine insurance companies were fairly tight on full reports of acciedents in the case of claims against the company. There should also be a report in the Belfast Telegraph at some stage too.

[Bob2399]

Hi Chris. I have had some newspaper notices of his death & funeral from Anthony on this site but have been unable to find any 'official' reporting on the accident.
I shall have a look in PRONI whenever I can get back over but thanks for your assistance
Bob

[Christopher]

Hiya Bob,

Have you looked at the Harland and Wolff Islandmen Project on the Antrim Resources board? It's about a collection of ID cards of people who worked in the yards. The guy who purchased them in a job lot at an auction would like to hear from either the owner of the card, or relations of the owner, and get some stories about work in the yards for his website.

Christopher