Gravestone at St Saviour’s Church, St Saviour’s, Guernsey commemorating eleven passengers lost in the wreck of the ‘Pitt’ in 1819
Location
St Saviour's Church, St Saviour's, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Transcript
'IHS Here lieth the remains of eleven individuals lost on the Rocks between L'Eree and Richmount [Richmond] on the 26th Nov. 1819 on board the Pitt Cutter from Jersey to Falmouth. Viz Darby Horrigan. Bridget Doyle, Margaret Garde, Mary McCue, Ann Corkran, Rosanne ONeil, Belle Dawson, Catherine Burrows, Mary Fitzpatrick, Mary Horrigan, Pappy Burns, May the Lord have mercy on their souls'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Black slate Vessel: Pitt
People
Burns, Pappy Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Burrows, Cathrine Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Corkran, Ann Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Dawson, Belle Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Doyle, Bridget Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Fitzpatrick, Mary Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Garde, Margaret Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Horrigan, Mary Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Horrigan, Darby Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: McCue, Mary Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: O'Neil, Rosanne Age: Date of Death: 26/11/1819 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
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Notes: The 'Pitt' was carrying a cargo of cattle and fifteen passengers. The drowned women passengers were found to be carrying smuggled silk under their outer clothing. Bibliography: Glynis Cooper 'Foul deeds and Suspicious deaths in Jersey' p. 73 (Barnsley, 2008) Recorder: La Societé Guernesiaise 1981
Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery commemorating Captain James Merger d. 1901 and William Andrew Merger d. 1879 in the loss of the ‘Egremont Castle’
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of Catherine Lawson, who died 3rd. September 1856 aged 47 years. Also William Andrew, grandson of the above, supposed to have gone down with the Barque 'EGREMONT CASTLE' in 1879, aged 19 years. Also Captain James Merger, son of the above Catherine Lawson, and father of the above William Andrew, who died 13th August 1901'
Merger, William Andrew Age: 19 Date of Death: 1879 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Merger, James Age: Date of Death: 13/8/1901 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation:
Gravestone at Church of St Marguerite de la Foret, Forest, Guernsey commemorating Thomas Richard Joint d. 1889 in the loss of the ‘Lena’
Location
St Sampson's Church, St Sampson's, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Transcript
'In loving memory of Thomas Richard son of Thomas and Lavinia Joint who was drowned on board the schooner 'Lena' by a collision in the River Thames on the 20th March 1889'
Details
Type: Memorial Position: Churchyard Materials: Portland stone Vessel: Lena
People
Joint, Thomas Richard Age: Date of Death: 20/3/1889 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: David Kreckeler 'Nineteenth Century Monumental Memorials in Guernsey and their history of nautical interest' (typescript). Recorder: David Kreckeler 1981
Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Thomas Hamilton D. Woodward d. 1873 in the wreck of the SS ‘Atlantic’
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'In memory of ERNEST WASHINGTON, son of Thomas and Mary WOODWARD, who departed this life February 18th. 1864, aged 12 months. Also THOMAS HAMILTON D. WOODWARD, brother of the above, who lost his life in the wreck of the 'S.S. ATLANTIC', April 1st. 1873, aged 16 years, interred at Halifax N.S.'
Details
Type: Headstone Position: Headstone R871 Vessel: SS Atlantic
People
Woodward, Thomas Hamilton D. Age: 16 Date of Death: 1/4/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Memorial in the Church of St Peter-in-Chains, Pennal, Gwynedd commemorating Commander Edmund Wybergh Thruston RN d. 1941 in the loss of HMAS ‘Sydney’
Location
Church of St Peter-in-Chains, Pennal, Gwynedd, Wales
Transcript
'Commander Edmund Wybergh Thruston D.S.C., Royal Navy, elder son of Edmund Heathcote and Lucy Thruston of Pennal Tower. Born Dec. 1903. Married Nina Nisbet Jan. 20 1940. While Second in Command of HMS Sydney, he was lost with all hands in her after a successful engagement with the enemy off Western Australia Nov. 20th 1941 aged 37 years'
Details
Vessel: HMAS Sydney
People
Thruston, Edmund Wybergh Age: 37 Date of Death: 20/11/1941 Cause of Death: War Casualty Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Australian Navy
Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain Charles William Lees d. 1891 in the loss of the ‘Utopia’
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Emma Isabella Humble Leighton, died November 6th 1857, aged 9 years. Also Mary Leighton, Mother of the above, who died 28 Sept. 1872, aged 66. Also Elizabeth Lees, daughter of the above, born 14 November 1846, died 13 April 1876. Also Robert Gibson Leighton, Second son of William Leighton and the above Mary Leighton, born 7th October 1842, died 24th. April 1879, on board the S.S. 'AFRICA', on his way home from Lagos to Liverpool, and was on the same day buried at sea off Whydah. Also Captain CHARLES WILLIAM LEES (Second Officer), grandson of Captain William Humble Leighton,of this port,born 2nd April 1861 lost in Gibraltar Bay through the foundering of S.S. 'UTOPIA' 17 March 1891'
Details
Type: Headstone Position: H481 Vessel: SS Africa, SS Utopia
People
Lees, Charles William Age: 29 Date of Death: 17/3/1891 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Second Officer Organisation: Anchor Line Leighton, Robert Gibson Age: Date of Death: 24/4/1879 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
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Notes: SS 'Utopia' on a voyage from Trieste to New York carrying Italian emigrants when she sank after a collision with HMS 'Anson' off Gibraltar with the loss of 582 lives. Recorder: Martin Davies 1985
Plaque at St Mary’s Church, Southampton commemorating the musicians of RMS ‘Titanic’ lost 1912
Location
St Mary's Church, St Mary's Street, Southampton, England
Transcript
'ERECTED / TO THE MEMORY OF / THAT HEROIC BAND OF MUSICIANS / OF THE S.S. TITANIC WHO, IN / THEIR LAST HOUR OF THIS MORTAL LIFE / BY THEIR SELF-SACRIFICING DEVOTION, / SOUGHT TO INSPIRE AND SUSTAIN IN / OTHERS THE ASSURANCE OF LIFE ETERNAL. APRIL 15TH 1912. / W. HARTLEY. / R. BRICOUX. F.C. CLARKE. / J.W. WOODWARD. G. KRINS. / P.C. TAYLOR. J. HUME. / W.T. BRAILEY / + / 'NEARER MY GOD TO THEE, / NEARER TO THEE / E'EN THOUGH IT BE A CROSS / THAT RAISETH ME; / STILL ALL MY SONG SHALL BE, / NEARER, MY GOD TO THEE, NEARER TO THEE' / "AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD / WHICH WERE IN IT"'
Details
Type: Wall plaque Vessel: RMS Titanic
People
Bricoux, R. Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: White Star Line Clarke, J. F. Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: White Star Line Hartley, Wallace Henry Age: 33 Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: White Star Line Hume, John Law Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: White Star Line Krins, George Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: Taylor, P. C. Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: White Star Line Woodward, J. W.
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Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: White Star Line
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Bibliography: Brian Ticehurst 'The Titanic, Southamptons Memorials' (Poole, 1987) (illustration).
Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain William H. Clarke d. 1862 and Arthur Leslie Clarke d. 1912 in the wreck of the ‘Wistow Hall’
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Captain William H CLARKE, of the ship 'NELL GWYNN', who died at Bombay, 20th May 1862, aged 46 years. Also ARTHUR LESLIE CLARKE, who was drowned at sea in the 'WISTOW HALL', off the Aberdeenshire coast, January 18th, 1912, aged 32 years'
Details
Type: Headstone Position: A235 Vessel: Nell Gwynn, Wistow Hall
People
Clarke, William H. Age: 46 Date of Death: 20/5/1862 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Clarke, Arthur Leslie Age: 32 Date of Death: 18/1/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Second Mate Organisation: Hall Line
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Recorder: Martin Davies 1985
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