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Re: [TSL] Please any help appreciatted
Marj Kohli <marj@uwaterloo.ca> on 04/25/2009

England does have a database for those sailing from UK ports. There 
is a Walter Crossley, age 22, sailing March 19, 1913 on the Arabic 
from Liverpool to Halifax and Portland, Maine. He is listed as a 
labourer. Canada has these online at

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/passenger/001045-100.01-e.php

You could also try looking at the Ellis Island database here

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/passenger/001045-100.01-e.php

Regards..

Marj

At 02:58 PM 4/25/2009, Valerie wrote:
>I am looking for any info re a relative  Walter Crossley who was born in
>Pittsburgh in the States according to War Records he was born in 1891 but
>according to Census records in Belfast Northern Ireland he was born in 1893.
>He is listed in the 1911 Census of  Belfast Northern Ireland as living with
>my Great Aunt Eliza Tate(nee Crossley) and is stated as Walter Crossley aged
>18yrs Machine Boy born USA - Relative  thus making his birth 1893
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>I did find a Walter Crossley on a ships record which stopped at Ellis Island
>and he is listed as about 1 month old and with his mother. I do not think
>this is the same Walter as the dates do not seem correct but then as I have
>been told already many dates which are given are not correct
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>However it is the War Grave Commission  that give his birth date as 1891 .
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>He enlisted in Belfast N. Ireland around 1914/15 and joined the Royal Irish
>rifles 8th battalion 36th Ulster Division and was sent to France
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>He fought in the Battle of the Somme and sadly on the 2nd day of the main
>battle he was killed and his body never found. He is remembered at Thiepval
>Memorial in France where we are going this year to see it and the area
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>His death according to the War Graves Commission is given as the 2nd of July
>1916 thus making him 25, so the Census of N. Ireland in 1911 and the death
>age given are in conflict .
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>This man was a relative and my sister has his War medals which were found in
>my Dads house when he died, yet no one seems to know anything more about him
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>I should love to find any record re this Walter Crossley and perhaps if he
>is recorded with any of his family on a ship from Pittsburgh to Belfast
>Northern Ireland  though which year I do not know but definitely before
>1911. So he msut have left Pittsburgh before 1911 since he is recorded in
>Belfast in 1911  and then died in 1916
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>I do have some names of our family relatives but so far am unable to link
>them to Walter and thus still dearly want to locate the names of his parents
>and any siblings
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>I seemed to have exhausted mush of my research and also have written to
>Pittsburgh for his Birth Certificate but they cannot find it , so I begin to
>wonder where he was born, since I also had someone search the Belfast
>records and they found nothing re his birth but surely he has to have been
>recorded somewhere or could he have been born at sea ??? I so much want to
>see whom he was in the family and why it seems so difficult to find his
>details
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>Any help at all appreciated and if I am required to join with a fee, the
>ships list I am only to happy to do that
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>Thanking your for reading this and hoping to hear any info or advice
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>Valerie and Noel Crossley
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>South Africa
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