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Post by annedw on Aug 19, 2010 14:29:03 GMT
I found this quite by chance looking for wills on Ancestry, the really strange thing is it also mention my Gt Grandfather Joseph Wilcoxon. Thomas Williams 1 Bryn Offa Adwyrclawdd, coal miner died 7 May 1915 at sea. Probate St Asaph 12 November to Thomas Charles Griffiths builder and Joseph Wilcoxon assistant overseer Effects £430. 4s 3d Could Thomas have been on the Lusitania On May 7th, 1915, at around 2:15, the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 . The ship then lost power within minutes and many passengers were trapped below; either in jammed elevator booths or narrow corridors blacked out and impossible to maneuver through. Within 15 minutes or so, Lusitania's decks were completely under water, and within another 3 minutes she was gone. Over 1,100 of the 1,900 passengers that boarded her in New York bound for Liverpool had perished, 128 of them Americans and over 100 children as well; due to the fact only 6 of her 48 boats were successfully launched due to the list.
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Post by daverussell on Aug 19, 2010 18:06:25 GMT
I found this quite by chance looking for wills on Ancestry, the really strange thing is it also mention my Gt Grandfather Joseph Wilcoxon. Thomas Williams 1 Bryn Offa Adwyrclawdd, coal miner died 7 May 1915 at sea. Probate St Asaph 12 November to Thomas Charles Griffiths builder and Joseph Wilcoxon assistant overseer Effects £430. 4s 3d Off-topic for Died at Sea, but very much on topic for Joseph Wilcoxon, he was also an executor of my Gt Grandfather - Benjamin Harrison d.11/1/12, probate granted St Asaph 10 May to John Harrison builder (his son) John Robert Jones school attendance officer (son in law) and Joseph Wilcoxon assistant overseer.
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