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Hi, dickie sam, and sorry for butting in on your post, Sophia, can you look at these deaths on board from the lists on line ? I have a rellie who died on board the Basilisk, so I have been told and would like to check it.
Thanks

lynne99 wrote:Hi, dickie sam, and sorry for butting in on your post, Sophia, can you look at these deaths on board from the lists on line ? I have a rellie who died on board the Basilisk, so I have been told and would like to check it.
Thanks

To do that you need a name, age and approximate date of death [year and month].
Not all marine deaths are listed but go to Findmypast and under 'Search records' select 'Education & Work'. After entering the name, YoB, YoD etc details you have, select 'Merchant Navy & Maritime' from Record Collection. Then select 'Merchant Navy Seamen' from Record Set.

If you don't get a good match remove the 'Merchant Navy Seamen' filter and try again.
Good luck

Thanks for that . I have just let me subscription for FMP lapse as I found the site difficult and could not get on with it. Still with Anx. Never mind hey. Oh, can you pay for FMP as a one off??

lynne99 wrote:Thanks for that . I have just let me subscription for FMP lapse as I found the site difficult and could not get on with it. Still with Anx. Never mind hey. Oh, can you pay for FMP as a one off??

You can buy credits on FMP but for doing what could be an extensive browse it might turn out expensive. Post all the info you have on that MN man and a quick peek will tell you if buying credits would be the thing to do.

Alexander Edmund Mitchell
born 12 June 1840 Allerton, Lancashire registered Prescot.
Died 1873 possibly last quarter.
Thanks Dickiesam

FMP is free in all Liverpool libraries and probably available in some libraries outside the Liverpool area.


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In addition to the library, you can usually get a free trial and there's also this offer until Monday http://forum.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk ... 24&t=14278 to get worldwide at 25% of the usual price.

Didn't find an Alexander who might be yours but I haven't found a merchantman named Basilisk either. But there were several vessels named HMS Basilisk in the RN. Your Alexander may have been in the Royal Navy which would turn the search to a different direction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Basilisk

Thanks for that Dickiesam. That would account for him being in Portsmouth in 1861. I think I was a bit confused about merchant and royal navy. Most of my family were in Merchant Navy so I do have an excuse
Thanks also for info on Basilisk-- very interesting. It looks like it should be a sailing ship (a sloop), but it was fitted with paddles and a steam engine.

There are a lot of mentions of the Basilisk in the newspapers but not found any including Alexander Mitchell, it would be a good place for you to browse in more depth.

MaryA wrote:There are a lot of mentions of the Basilisk in the newspapers but not found any including Alexander Mitchell, it would be a good place for you to browse in more depth.

His name might have been slightly different, either a diminutive like Alex or Sandy for instance

Peter

1861
RG 9; Piece: 637; Folio: 92; Page: 32;
Portsea
Alexander Mitchell, visitor, Seaman RN

A possible? Age is out slightly but it is HMS Basilisk.

1871: RG10 Piece 5779 Folio 63 Page 5
Royal Navy At Sea and in Ports Abroad
Name: Alex Mitchell
Occupation: Stoker
Age: 29
Estimated birth year: 1842
Birth place: Liverpool
Vessel name: HMS Basilisk, At Sea

Transcribed on Anc as Aleni Mitchell


http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss ... &ml_rpos=4

The NA have two records for an Alexander Mitchell RN, bn Liverpool, but the given DoBs are not a match. The first one looks interesting and worth a look because of the date he volunteered... 25 Aug 1860. Both are available for download. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.u ... +Liverpool

Post removed. Incorrect data.

Thanks Dickiesam and Bert
This is the info I have for Alexander's baptism, from Anx
Alexander Edmund Mitchell
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 12 Jun 1840
Christening Date: 5 Jul 1840
Christening Place: Woolton, Lancashire, England
Age at Christening: 0
Father's Name: John Mitchell, Gardener
Mother's Name: Esther

Also on this site the is a baptism for and Alexander Mitchell b Oct 1841 parent Alexander and Eliza , so not mine (I hope) I now wonder if he is the one on the Basilisk as his father was an engine fitter.
Any suggestions

For the crew this is the birth...
Births Jun 1840: Mitchell, Alexander Edmond - Prescot 20 718

Do we understand he never married and what is the source of the lore that he died abt 1874 while on HMS Basilisk?

lynne99 wrote:Also on this site the is a baptism for an Alexander Mitchell b Oct 1841 parent Alexander and Eliza , so not mine (I hope) I now wonder if he is the one on the Basilisk as his father was an engine fitter.
Any suggestions

He is one of the 2 in the NA records I posted the reference to.

I have broken the forbidden rule and taken someone else's info as true.
I have Alexander Edmund (Edmond) on the 41 and 51 census, with his family , South Hill Toxteth and Ashton St Liverpool. I am certain of these as they are with his mother, Esther , a widow, and his siblings . All correct. Mother dead before 1861 census , having remarried Thomas Barton Eaves.
I can't find his siblings or him with certainty in the 61 census. It is possible they all went to sea. Alexander's brother William is my G Grandfather and on his marriage certificate it says he is a mariner.
From anx may have been on Pacific and city of Baltimore, but again I can't be certain. The number for these William Mitchells are different. Did it change if they changed ship?
Oh dear I'm sorry to lump all this on you.