So much for the early "blue bloods." Now we turn to -the Seaman's Cemetery Pootung and the first entry is in 1859 when "Peter Edelman, London, Steward Bh. Ship, Earl of Windsor" was laid fay with "W. H. Pownall" officiate ing.
The second entry breaths of mystery, "Distressed Lascar, Calcatia' and.there is the whole story of one man's death, Then follow many without abodes being given, ages. are missing and {in several eases names. One of the latter reads "Boatswain Bh, ship North "Star" and another, "Mate. Bh. ship Beverley." Two complete stories of lives that may have been replete with drama." Who knows bat what they were not the victims of a crew's fancied wrongs, deaths service, at sea, "unwept, unhonoured and unsung?"
Tt is significant of life in those days among seagoing folk that the oldest age in the first 40 entries is 37 years, with the average over whelmingly in the early twenties.
In 1859 comes the first record of =i So1 2 6s FI f 5.5
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Shanghai pilot, "Archibald Mc-Donald, Shanghai Pilot, Ayre Scotland, 58 years."
Many were drowned, many were members of the Royal Marines and gunners in the Royal Artillery. and many came from the "U, States."
Here is one worth recording, "Ben Bolt Sussex, England, 36 years, 1860, N. B." His father a clergyman at Wellington, New Zealand."
What story is behind this?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.