Hello All After a long absence, (as I've have been kept busy transcribing for our Community Web-site), I thought I should get back to posting to our mailing list.
I look forward to everyone posting any new information they've found on their ancestors, or questions they may have. Some brief News of the day transcribed from the 2 Jan. 1832 edition of the Northern Whig Melancholy Shipwrecks, and Loss of Lives On Tuesday night last, during a dense fog, the brig 'Eagle', of this port, Robert DUNCAN, master, from Glasgow, for this city, coal laden, struck rock at the Skerries off Portrush and shortly afterwards went down; all hands, 6 in number, perished. The boats were broken to pieces and, together with the Captain’s trunk and papers, soon after came ashore. The top-masts appear at low-water. The Eagle belonged to Mr. Thomas WHITE, of the Waterside and, we are sorry to learn, was not insured. The same night, a sloop struck a rock a little to the westward of where the Eagle was wrecked and went down; 3 out of 4 hands perished. The survivor lashed himself with his handkerchief to the top mast and was taken off (when almost dead), by a boat going to the Eagle. The sloop proves to be the 'Nancy', of Inverness, Duncan M‘KENZIE from the Clyde, bound for Portrush. We greatly fear we shall hear of other wrecks, from the great fogs of the last 3 days, many vessels having left the Clyde for the North of Ireland. In the list of diseases and casualties for the year, (1831) we find the following; diseases and casualties / with total succumbed Age and debility, 2,677 Asthma, 1,061 Consumption, 4,807 Convulsions, 2,980 Hooping cough, 1,738 Inflammation, 2,812 Insanity, 226 Measles, 750 Jaundice, 44 Small pox, 563 Still-born, 898 Burnt, 35 Died by fright, 2 Drowned, 131 Killed by falls &c, 135 Suicide, 48 making, in all, 25,337 deaths, as above. Death of Captain MacCAUSLAND It is our painful duty to record the untimely fate of Captain MacCAUSLAND, H.M.S. Cruizer, on the West India Station, an event which has plunged one of the most highly respected families in this neighbourhood into the deepest affliction, and has taken from the Naval Service of our country, a gallant, zealous and distinguished officer. He expired on the 7th of October, on board his ship on her voyage from the river Amazon to Halifax His mortal remains were deposited by his brother officers and companions in arms in Falmooth Church yard, Island of Antigua, amidst the tears and lamentations of the whole ship's company. Having entered the profession at a very early age and being actuated by the highest principles of honour, integrity and religion, his whole life was passed in the service of his country and his God. Captain MacCAUSLAND was eldest son of the Rev. Oliver MacCAUSLAND of Finlagan, in this county and nephew to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. All the Best~ Teena _______________________________________________ [email protected] UlsterAncestry Mailing List Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.cotyrone.com/mailman/listinfo/ulsterancestry Website: https://cotyrone.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CoTyroneIrelandGenealogy/
