dreward
26-11-2007, 01:04 PM
Good afternoon all
Because of the Devon connection, this message has been cross-posted from the Mariners & Ships forum.
I have a personal brick wall and I am hoping someone can at least help disentangle myself from it.
My great great grandfather's brother William Ward is reported to have been a midshipman on board what is supposed to be an East India ship called the Bucephalus.
On the East India Company site no ship of this name can be found.
William died very suddenly on board this ship on Christmas day 1845 when it was apparently at Calcutta.
Despite extensive searches carried out no reference via the NA has produced his name or that of the ship - so what now??
My only source of this event was the publication of his death with date and location and family in the Exeter Flying Post and/or the Western Chronicle of 5 March 1846 - see transcript below.
The Irish link - Thomas Ward - can not be verified nor can William or his brother Robert's birth in Dublin.
Transcript of newspaper cutting.
"At Calcutta, on christmas dat last, in the 21st year of his age, Mr.William Ward, Midshipman on board the East India ship "Bucephalus", - he was the beloved and only brother of Mr.Robert Ward, of Talaton, in this county(Devon), and the youngest son of the late Mr.Thomas Ward, of Dublin, merchant."
I would be very grateful to anyone who could give any further clues as to how I can verify his presence on the Bucephalus or indeed try to verify his birth in Dublin. BTW it is known from various census returns that brother Robert was born in Dublin.
My thanks
Dave
Utrecht Holland
Because of the Devon connection, this message has been cross-posted from the Mariners & Ships forum.
I have a personal brick wall and I am hoping someone can at least help disentangle myself from it.
My great great grandfather's brother William Ward is reported to have been a midshipman on board what is supposed to be an East India ship called the Bucephalus.
On the East India Company site no ship of this name can be found.
William died very suddenly on board this ship on Christmas day 1845 when it was apparently at Calcutta.
Despite extensive searches carried out no reference via the NA has produced his name or that of the ship - so what now??
My only source of this event was the publication of his death with date and location and family in the Exeter Flying Post and/or the Western Chronicle of 5 March 1846 - see transcript below.
The Irish link - Thomas Ward - can not be verified nor can William or his brother Robert's birth in Dublin.
Transcript of newspaper cutting.
"At Calcutta, on christmas dat last, in the 21st year of his age, Mr.William Ward, Midshipman on board the East India ship "Bucephalus", - he was the beloved and only brother of Mr.Robert Ward, of Talaton, in this county(Devon), and the youngest son of the late Mr.Thomas Ward, of Dublin, merchant."
I would be very grateful to anyone who could give any further clues as to how I can verify his presence on the Bucephalus or indeed try to verify his birth in Dublin. BTW it is known from various census returns that brother Robert was born in Dublin.
My thanks
Dave
Utrecht Holland