BS: Real salt in my blood?

Subject: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 04:17 AM

Having done a bit of research into my family tree, it looks like my Great Grandfather's cousin was bosun on the Ramsgate lifeboat for which he received an RNLI silver medal.

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 10:53 AM

Tell us more about him!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 12 Jun 11 - 05:36 PM

how did you get started finging dtuff out like that? I'm always frightened i might find out even worse stuff than i already suspect.

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Bert
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 01:47 AM

My Great Grandfather founded West Ham United. Or rather the team that eventually became West Ham.

He was a boilermaker at Thames Ironworks. A lot of the apprentices there came from a local church school called St. Luke's. He started a soccer team which was at first called St. Luke's Juveniles. As the apprentices grew up they changed the name to Thames Ironworks which then developed into West Ham.

He died of a ruptured spleen after falling into a ship's hold.

My Grandfather was a riveter and my Father was a boilermaker plater.
When Dad worked in the docks, blokes would come up to him and tell him that his 'Old Man' founded West Ham.

I also served an apprenticeship and worked as a boilermaker plater. So I'm a fourth generation boilermaker. A plater is a person who works with steel plate. Once you've done that, most other things seem easy. Steel plate doesn't come with an online debugger so you have to get it right first time, every time. (Microsoft please note)

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 06:02 AM

Sorry to disillusion you, but "Great Grandfather's cousin was bosun on the Ramsgate " does not mean anything for your bloodline (unless there was subsequent in-breeding)

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 06:28 AM

True, but I was talking ??figuratively??, and it is an interesting part of my family tree.

Maybe some of the 'salt' rubbed off, and resulted in me singing shanties for 27 years

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 12:48 AM

Don't know if some of the salt rubbed off, but keep singing those chanties!

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Gurney
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 02:05 AM

One of my father's forebears was the first stationmaster in the world. Must be anthracite in my blood.
Some salt there. Two others were drowned in submarines in WW1.

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 05:04 AM

Dear Gurney

I had an uncle who was in British submarine in World War 1 ( even though he was Australian). His name was Havelock Lindsell and he was from Sydney.

It would have been a laugh a minute in those sardine cans in the cold cold North Sea wouldn't it ?

AD

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 07:16 AM

I have quite a bit of sea-faring ancestry but I get sea-sick myself.

MY GENES DON'T FIT (A song of recessive reinforcement)
Robin Madge © 2000

The first white man 'cross the Rockies is in my family tree
However did he get there if he didn't go by sea?
He palavered with Red Indian chiefs and passed the pipe around.
I'm sure he didn't get there all the way on solid ground.
CH.
Why do I get sea sick most times I am afloat?
Why do I get seasick if I step aboard a boat?
They say that it is in our genes that make us what we are
But I shall never make a tar.

When Napoleon was taken to Elba in exile
An ancestor of mine was there to take him from the trial.
The Captain of Marines that escorted him as guard.
He didn't find the voyage on Belerophon so hard.

With Nelson at Trafalgar on board the Victory
You'll find there was a bosun who looked a bit like me.
He didn't get much help from his Admiral you see,
Nelson's cure for mal de mer: "Sit underneath a tree."

A captain of a clipper ship could be the life for me,
But had I had great uncle's genes how happy I would be.
But that was many years ago and now I'm out of luck.
He sailed aboard the Lightning, I just feel as though I'm struck.

One branch of the family took another road to fame,
Shipbuilding on the Solent is how they made their name.
Now I would be sadistic and made all my vessels roll
To make the sailors feel the same as me would be my goal.

My cousin drives an oil tanker 300 metres long.
He'd raise his hands in horror if he knew who wrote this song.
He has to deal with pirates out there on the Red sea
While a dinghy trip on Ullswater nearly did for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 06:57 AM

I was in the Royal Navy for 11 years. My only seagoing ancestry, however,comes from my Great-Grandfather, George Tudor , who helped to dig (and briefly "sailed " on ) the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal , and my Grandfather William Mills who ,after serving for most of WW 1 in the Army, was transferred as a Petty Officer to the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division ! My father, understandably , joined the RAF in WW2 .

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 09:37 AM

More information.

My Great Grandfather's Cousin served on the Ramsgate Lifeboat "Bradford" which in 1888 rescued 11 souls from the barque 'Indian Chief' which was wrecked on long sands - a feat for which the Coxwain received a gold medal and the rest of the crew as well as the accompanying tug silver medals from the RNLI.

The event was 'documented' with due lack of care towards rhyme metre and historical fact in a poem by McGonagall.

Anyway, I am digging deeper on researching the event - found some good stuff already on the web - and some songs/ballads are in the pipeline!!

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 10:16 AM

My grandfather was arrested and jailed for 180 days for making his own whiskey.

His still is still at my brother's house, where it sits still.

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jul 11 - 12:57 PM

SPB-C. in your case that would mean yer an olde salt?**bg**

What fun to learn of your ancestors' deeds and lives. One of my fav. things to do! My dad always teased me about being an "ancestor worshipper" but it was his stories of them which made me so!

Blackbelt etc. - great lyrics!!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Real salt in my blood?
From: olddude
Date: 08 Jul 11 - 12:21 PM

Hey Rap,
lets fire up the old still, Bobert's been wanting some good shine