Grandpa was on board.: A memory of Kingstown

Grandpa Was On Board.

A Memory of Kingstown.

My grandfather George Edwin Webber served on this ship between 1st November 1895 and September 9th 1897. He may have actually been on board as this photo was taken.

He was also on the HMS 'Belleisle' which was stationed in Kingstown from June 11th 1888 to 8th of March 1892.

He married a girl named Margaret (born 1872) from Meath. Rose was born in Meath in 1896. Lilly, George and James arrived in the three years from 1898, but they were born in Lincolnshire. I have not yet found Margaret's maiden name.

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Added 14 September 2010

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Since writing the comments about my grandfather being on the Melampus and Belleisle I have done much research and found that he married Margaret Cox and was serving on coastguard ships in what was then called Kingstown. Regulations changed and not long afterwards he would not have been able to marry an Irish girl.
George Edwin Webber was a coastguard and they were a fighting force at the time and were trained in exactly the same skills as sailors.
He was stationed ashore in Lincolnshire and near The Wash for some years and then near Whitby, North Yorkshire at the start of the 20th century.
George met my grandmother in about 1912 and at the outbreak of W.W.1 was a C.P.O. in the Orkneys. An injury sustained during the war led to his death at the start of 1920.

By Christine Whittaker on Tue Feb 28th 2017, at 12:36 am

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