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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 19 May 11 12:37 BST (UK) »
Gali

I have done a little bit of research with the Maritime Museum, but I do find it all very complicated and so didn't persevere as I should have.   Eti

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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #19 on: Friday 20 May 11 09:39 BST (UK) »
No, it's not so easy to trace Merchant Seamen who served after 1857 but it's a thought ...

I could only find census entries for this chap for 1891 and 1901 ... not 1881 and 1911 as you said you'd seen ... what are his addresses in 1881 and 1901?

Have you thought about the possibility that he may have anglicised his surname?  Stanhouse is a name more common in Fife than Stanley; excepting those Beath miners that have already been mentioned.  They might be worth investigating though ...

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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #20 on: Friday 20 May 11 10:32 BST (UK) »


Charles Stanley lived at 52 The Woodlands, Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire.

Still not a word about Pilots on the Suez.  Did they exist?

Still no address for Bohemian Masonic Lodge in Birkenhead.

Keepwearching please.  Eti

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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #21 on: Friday 20 May 11 11:20 BST (UK) »
So 52 The Woodlands in 1911, what was the address in 1881 please?

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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 21 May 11 10:39 BST (UK) »


gali

Don't know 1881 address, Sorry Eti

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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 21 May 11 19:33 BST (UK) »
A Suez pilot would have been employed by the Suez Canal Company (The Universal Suez Ship Canal Company). It was an Egyptian company and was nationalised in 1956.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Company

Here’s a story about Suez pilots at the time of the nationalisation.
http://tinyurl.com/3wwv6vv

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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #24 on: Monday 23 May 11 10:52 BST (UK) »
To Askan

Do you have an address of anykind for the pilots featured in your article
which forwarded to me.  They would possibly know a list of pilots during the
1870's to 1890's which could possibly help my research.  Eti

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Re: Pilots on Suez Canal
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 24 May 11 10:32 BST (UK) »
Eti,

Any pilots mentioned in the 1956 Life Magazine article have probably now gone to the great canal in the sky.

You could possibly contact the Association Lesseps and ask them where any surviving records of Suez pilots would be kept. According to this page, in 1956 the local Suez Company archives were taken over by the Egyptian Government but the administrative archives, which were stored in France, are now in the French National Archives. There’s more information here and a contact link at the bottom of the page. http://www.associationlesseps.org/en/asso_archives.html

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