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A1.0 Alexander McKellar - Merchant Seaman
The discharge paper relates to the mail ship Orivia built in 1897 and relates to the period betwen June and August 1900.
The Orivia sank on the 12 January 1912 after striking the Billy Rock in the Falklands Ireland. The crew, passengers and mail were saved by two tug boats. It’s not known if Alexander was on board the ship, his daughter Patricia never referred to it.
Alexander was born in 1862 in Price St Birkenhead was the eldest of 8 children. He did not complete his education but ran away to sea. He became a Bosun in the Merchant Navy and sailed around the world going to China for Tea and around Cape Horn to Valparaiso Chile to collect Guano. Alexander had retired when Patricia was born and she remembers her father as a quiet and gentle man who spent the evenings with her telling stories about his adventures and bought her comics from the back of Birkenhead Market.
Alexander died in 1945 of Pneumonia in the Workhouse Hospital Birkenhead.
Aleander’s father was Gilbert (Gabriel) McKellar who was born in 1839 at Levinside Terrace Dumbarton and died in 1904 Priory St. Birkenhead. In Liverpool Gilbert worked first in the ship-yards in Liverpool then went to work in the John Lairds shipyard in Birkenhead which had moved from the Wallasey tidal inlet to the River Mersey foreshore.
The father of Gilbert was Daniel who was a Shipwright and in Dumbarton the shipyards there constructed Clipper ships like the Cutty Sark; these ships were both sleek and fast and used to convey high value cargo from India and China.
Daniel McKellar moved with his 5 children to Gilbert House Howard St Liverpool, after his wife, Helen died in 1848.
Alexander’s mother was Margaret Roberts who was born in 1831 – Llanelidan Denbighshire and died in 1918 at 13 Priory St. Birkenhead. The parents of Margret were Robert Roberts from Clocaenog and Jane Patry from Llanelidan and Robert was a Hill farmer.
The sister of Margaret was Alice who married the brother of Gilbert, Alexander and they all lived with their families in various houses around St Mary’s Church.
A1.0 Alexander McKellar - Merchant Seaman
The discharge paper relates to the mail ship Orivia built in 1897 and relates to the period betwen June and August 1900.
The Orivia sank on the 12 January 1912 after striking the Billy Rock in the Falklands Ireland. The crew, passengers and mail were saved by two tug boats. It’s not known if Alexander was on board the ship, his daughter Patricia never referred to it.
Alexander was born in 1862 in Price St Birkenhead was the eldest of 8 children. He did not complete his education but ran away to sea. He became a Bosun in the Merchant Navy and sailed around the world going to China for Tea and around Cape Horn to Valparaiso Chile to collect Guano. Alexander had retired when Patricia was born and she remembers her father as a quiet and gentle man who spent the evenings with her telling stories about his adventures and bought her comics from the back of Birkenhead Market.
Alexander died in 1945 of Pneumonia in the Workhouse Hospital Birkenhead.
Aleander’s father was Gilbert (Gabriel) McKellar who was born in 1839 at Levinside Terrace Dumbarton and died in 1904 Priory St. Birkenhead. In Liverpool Gilbert worked first in the ship-yards in Liverpool then went to work in the John Lairds shipyard in Birkenhead which had moved from the Wallasey tidal inlet to the River Mersey foreshore.
The father of Gilbert was Daniel who was a Shipwright and in Dumbarton the shipyards there constructed Clipper ships like the Cutty Sark; these ships were both sleek and fast and used to convey high value cargo from India and China.
Daniel McKellar moved with his 5 children to Gilbert House Howard St Liverpool, after his wife, Helen died in 1848.
Alexander’s mother was Margaret Roberts who was born in 1831 – Llanelidan Denbighshire and died in 1918 at 13 Priory St. Birkenhead. The parents of Margret were Robert Roberts from Clocaenog and Jane Patry from Llanelidan and Robert was a Hill farmer.
The sister of Margaret was Alice who married the brother of Gilbert, Alexander and they all lived with their families in various houses around St Mary’s Church.