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Re: I'm looking for information about the death of my great-grandfather William Newton Thirlaway, a British merchant navy officer. According to the UK probate documents his body was found 'at the foot of 87th Street' New York on 10th May 1901. He was last
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Re: I'm looking for information about the death of my great-grandfather William Newton Thirlaway, a British merchant navy officer. According to the UK probate documents his body was found 'at the foot of 87th Street' New York on 10th May 1901. He was last
Hello!
I found two news from the year 1900, but they are about some kind of shipwreck. Do you need them?
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Re: I'm looking for information about the death of my great-grandfather William Newton Thirlaway, a British merchant navy officer. According to the UK probate documents his body was found 'at the foot of 87th Street' New York on 10th May 1901. He was last
Hi Merja, thanks for your response and sorry for the delay but I have been away for a few days. I have seen the newspaper reports of the rescue of people from the 'Nonpareil' in 1900 by the crew of the 'Glengoil' the ship that my ancestor was on. They took them to New York where the Glengoil docked but left again a few weeks later. I presume he was on the ship when it left but I cannot find any further reports of shipping movements in the NY newspapers after that time. I suppose it's possible he jumped ship in NY but I have no evidence for that. More likely I think is that he came back to the UK but returned in 1901. Family lore has it that his body was found in a river in NY some weeks after he was last seen alive. The probate judge in the UK wrote that he was found 'at the foot of 87th street' but that seems to cross NY and links both rivers. Perhaps 'at the foot of' means a particular location in NY?
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