Hi
Does anyone know if there are there any records of British shipwrights working in the dockyard in the early 1900s? Any help would be most appreciated
Ricky
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Dear rickyhpierre:
Please let us know what the connection is to Gibraltar?
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The Naval Dockyards. I am trying to find out if their are any records of British shipwrights working in the Naval Dockyards in Gibraltar in the 1900s
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Hi Ricky.
My gt. grandfather, charles cook was by trade a shipwright, and he and his family were in gibralter during the early 1900's. He was at this time working in the naval dockyards as a foreman plater and the company he was working for was the Thames Iron Works of canning town London. As you may or may not know they had a very famous football team which is still in existance today. The TIW built large battleships for the navy and I dare say they also repaired some as well. The TWI has a large collection at the local studies library at stratford east London. My gt. grandmother is buried in the north front cemetery
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Hi There That is interesting to know that British shipwrights were working in Gibraltar, and I had never heard of the football team, I will look that up now. It was just a guess on my part that John Lincoln Rixon worked at the shipyards, as on the 1911 England census for Sheerness his son was recorded as being born in Gibraltar in 1909. Sadly John Lincoln was killed in the explosion of the H.M.S. Princess Irene at the dockyards in Sheerness in 1915
Ricky
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Sorry I don't know if there are records but I also had an ancestor, John Penny who worked in the dockyards in the 1790's. It appears that many shipwrights moved around a lot, following the work I guess. I can trace John to also being in Deptford Shipyard and also Guernsey.
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Yes I found out that they moved about a lot too. My own Rixon family worked at Pembroke Dock, Govan and Sheerness. John Lincoln worked in Gibraltar, I was able to confirm it through his sons birth certificate. And a Rixon daughter went to Malta with her shipwright husband!
Ricky
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