Anthony Conning kirkcudbright

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WOW Matt you have been busy for me and I am awestruck with your findings, a lot to take in and try and figure just who is who here.

Death of Anthony Conning and three sons John  James and Anthony all died young and Anthonys wife Mary Mathews also died the same year as Anthony,how sad for her.
Grd Agnes Isabella Dickson I did not know about  and I am assuming she is the daughter of Agnes and James M Dickson, who married Liverpool 1856 with a bit of dubious name changes on the marriage cert, I presume Agnes covering up her previous marriage. do you have a date for her death??

The last bit (West Side) will take a bit of explaining as I do not have those names at all and can't follow the relationship.
Cowper was the name of my gt grandmother Jane Wilson Lloyd before marriage and her father was Robert but after 1841 he is elusive and married ? to Agnes Janes mother.
Jane Wilson Lloyd died India 1876 and her husband five years later.

Thanks Matt this all gives me a new look see for this family and I will follow these leads.

Edna

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http://www.irishshipwrecks.com/shipwrecks.php?wreck_ref=255

I have just found info on the shipwreck of James Maben Dickson so may go to the Liverpool Maritime Museum to see what I can find as soon as I can get the time.

Thanks Matt

Edna

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Hi Edna.
Try this link & search for Conning on the Shipping Registers
http://www.dgcommunity.net/historicalindexes/default.aspx

 Just found this on it.It could be the vessel referred to in Anthony's will.

Date: 06 June 1826
Ship Name/No: SKELDON
Port: Kirkcudbright
Type: Smack
Registration No:
Burthen: 23 11/94
Length: 37
Breadth: 12 7/12
Hold: 6 7/12

Description: Running bowsprit. One deck, one mast. Square stern, carvel built. Has raised wark upon the quarter deck. No galleries, no figurehead.

Master: CONNING, Anthony
Owners: CONNING, Anthony of Kirkcudbright, Mariner 64 shares.

History: Built at Air (sic)(Ayr) in Co. of Air (Ayr) and registered there 20 July 1825. Certificate of Registry delivere up and cancelled and the vessel re-registered at kirkcudbright 02 Nov. 1828.
Surveyor: McLELLAN, David, Comptroller, Acting Tidesurveyor at Kirkcudbright.
Later Masters: CONNING, James at Wigtown 03 Aug. 1826. CONNING, William has become Master 29 Oct. 1827.
Rgds Matt

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Thanks Matt,
It looks like it stayed in the Conning Family, I just need to find out who they are who owned it after Anthony's death.

I have discovered that James M Dickson was delivering Palm Oil to the UK Liverpool from Africa
I have found the baptism on familysearch for his daughter Agnes Isabella Dickson giving her birth date as 10th Aug 1856.

Exciting times as this side of my research has remained dormant for some time.

Edna

[matt muir]

Hi Edna.
After I found the MI for Anthony Conning in Kirkcudbright Cemetery I never checked any others.
Guess what, I have just found one that gives some more info on James M Dickson, his parents etc.
This is it.............
628
Jas DICKSON d Kirkcudbright 15.3.1860 59yrs, w Jane MABEN 13.3. 1842 47yr,
w Annie McGOWAN 29.4.1865,by s Thos d Glasgow 1.11. 1878 47, ss Jas &
John master mariners,the former drowned off the coast of Ireland in the
shipwreck of the barque Florence Graham homeward bound from the coast of
Africa 24.1.1861, 36. the latter d Glasgow 3.2.1873 49, da Jane d Glasgow
8.1. 1876 42  ( h Thos ANDERSON baker Glasgow 1.11.1878 47, chn Mary Rae-
burn 3.11.60 1y 9m, Mary Raeburn 18.7. 1864, Thos Walker 12.8.1868 3 w,
Wm Wallace 20.4.1870 3 w, Mary Walker 9.10. 1873 2y 5m )

Rgds   Matt.
PS Palm Oil is still being imported into Liverpool Docks now.

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Hello Matt,

It is hard trying to follow this message, but I do know about Palm Oil as I personally was employed for many years refining the oil myself in Liverpool after an equal opps struggle in an Edible Oil Refinery in the 80s now closed down

I will have to re read the thread tomorrow

Thank you

Edna

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Matt Where are the MI's for Kircudbright, are the available on line

Edna