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jim wise
31-12-2005, 2:11 PM
I am trying to find out for my wife about her grandfather who was killed in we think in Cammell Lairds shipyard in Birkenhead or in the dockyard about 1930?
He was a electric crane driver and was called John Adams.
Can anybody point me in the right direction ,i assume there would have been
a enquiry into it.
Thanks Jim & Valerie Wise
Wirral
31-12-2005, 2:51 PM
Hi Jim & Valerie
Welcome to the forum.:) First of all, do you have the death certificate? If not, you can find out the General Register Office (GRO) reference details from some libraries (if you are in the UK), or online at https://www.familyrelatives.org/treequest/jsp/customer/index.jsp
or http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/LogonServlet
Both of the latter are pay-per-view sites. With those details you can get a certificate online through the government site http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate/
Once you have the date of death, then you can see if there is a report in the local papers - Birkenhead News or Liverpool Daily Post & Echo. There are a number of books about Cammell Lairds. Try contacting Birkenhead Central Library (they will be closed now until after the New Year holiday. They will also have the burial details.
I'm planning to go to the library in the next week or so.
Wirral
10-01-2006, 9:33 PM
Just been to Wallasey library which has an Intranet Link to Birkenhead. Apparently all the personnel records for Cammell Lairds have been destroyed. The only records remaining about the shipyard are those about the ships themselves.

Looks like you will have to get the birth certificate first. There may be a coroner's report or a newspaper article, but I do not think either are indexed, so you will need the date of death first.
Sharron
10-01-2006, 9:43 PM
Hi Alison,

You mentioned that the personnel records had been destroyed. Was this by accident or design? I had hoped to follow my maternal grandfather's line soon, and he worked on the original Ark Royal, built at Lairds.

Sharron
Wirral
10-01-2006, 9:50 PM
Hi Sharron

I don't know whether it was accidental or not. It just said that on the computer. Have you looked at any books on Cammell Lairds? I've seen some about at Smiths & the library, but not really looked at them as I don't have many ancestral connections to this side of the water.