Edward Whitfield GOUNDRY 1839 – 1909 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 9 DEC 1839
Event Place: Lambeth, Surrey

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Date: 25 JAN 1855
Event Place: St. Saviour, Southwark, Surrey
Record Source: - the family was living at Cap Gris Nez, France

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 6 JUN 1841
Event Place: South Lambeth, Surrey
Record Source: living with four siblings, their parents and two Servants
Age:
2y

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 30 MAR 1851
Event Place: Lawn Cottage, South Lambeth, Surrey
Record Source: living with eight siblings, their parents and three Servants
Age:
11y

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 24 JAN 1855 AND 12 MAY 1859
Record Source: he served on the ship "Truro", registered at Sunderland.

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 7 DEC 1859 AND 21 AUG 1861
Record Source: he was 3rd Mate on the "Truro".

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 21 AUG 1861 AND 25 FEB 1862
Record Source: he was 1st Mate on the "Marian", registered at Shields.

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 28 FEB 1862 AND 10 JUL 1862
Record Source: he was an Able-Bodied Seaman on the "Albert Edward", registered at Liverpool.

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 24 SEP 1862
Record Source: he was admitted to the Dreadnought Seamans' Hospital for treatment to a Periodontal Fistula (a dental abscess) - his record stated that he had been in the Merchant Navy for eight years, and his last position was as an Able Seaman on the "Albert Edward", sailing out of London
Age:
23y

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 19 MAR 1863 AND 22 JUL 1864
Record Source: he was 3rd Mate on the "Maritzburg" of London

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 20 SEP 1864
Record Source: he was granted a Certificate of Competency as a Second Mate - his address was 25 Rue du Moulin a Vapeur / Nells? St. Sailors Home.

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 26 JUL 1867
Record Source: he was granted a Certificate of Competency as a First Mate - his address was 25 Rue de Moulin a Vapeur, Boulogne / 3 Penson Place, West India Road.

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 10 JAN 1868 AND 17 FEB 1869
Record Source: he served as Mate on the "Golden Empire", registered at London.

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET 13 NOV 1869 AND 24 OCT 1870
Record Source: he served as Mate on the "Tuskar" of Glasgow

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 12 DEC 1870
Record Source: he was granted a Certificate of Competency as a Master, his address was 12 Nixon Street, Sandyford Lane, Newcastle-on-Tyne

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 21 DEC 1870
Record Source: Edward Whitfield GOUNDRY was included in Lloyd's Captains' Register as a Captain to whom a Masters' certificate had been issued by the Registrar-General of Seamen, during the week ending 17th Dec. 1870, having taken the examination at South Shields.

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 2 APR 1871
Event Place: 12 Nixon Street, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Record Source: living with four siblings and their widowed mother - Edward was a Mariner.

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: NOV 1871
Record Source: as Captain of the smack "Thos. Stratton" he was involved in the rescue of 24 men from the SS. "Emma Ash", of about 2,000 tons. The smack was lying-to off the Dogger Bank in a heavy gale when she came in view of two steamers, one towing the other. The "Emma Ash" was settling down, as she had nine feet of water in her hold, and her boiler fires had been put out. The tow-ship abandoned her as she was sinking, leaving the rescue to the "Thos. Stratton". Capt. GOUNDRY and his mate launched a boat and rowed to the sinking steamer, where they rescued eight of the crew. With another crew member he made a second trip, rescuing a further eight men, including two from a lifeboat which had capsized. The remainder of the seamen launched a second lifeboat and managed to reach the smack

Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1 OCT 1873
Record Source: he was Captain of the steamer "Whittington", which was en-route from Amble to Ghent with a cargo of 382 tons of coal. At 6.30 pm. it grounded on the Middle Cross Sands, (off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and consisting of sandbanks of continually changing depths of only a few metres). The Captain immediately ordered the engines to stop and go full speed astern but the vessel did not come off. He fired off distress signals until they had all been used. The Captain commenced discharging cargo from the after hold until she began to make water, when he set the pumps to work. He also pumped the water from the hold, but it gained upon them, and eventually put the fires out, it was than about 1 am. He then ordered the boats to be got out, and at 2.15 am. the Captain and crew left their vessel and proceeded to the Cockle Lightship, which they reached at 7.30 am. A passing steamer towed their boat abreast of Yarmouth, where they went to the Sailor's Home. The Captain went out to his vessel that afternoon and found her full of water, the seas breaking over her, and the fore part as far as the bridge was under water. The "Whittington" was an iron steamer of 191 tons, and had been built on the Tyne only the previous year

Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 21 NOV 1873
Record Source: the Board of Trade Inquiry was opened into the sinking of the "Whittington" on Middle Rock Sand. Mr. HUMBLE, one of the owners of the vessel said that the Captain had been two years in their service and during that time there had never been any accident to the ship. They had always found him a steady, active, and sober man - so much so, that they resolved to appoint him to a larger vessel on the last voyage, and if the ship had not met with the accident the Captain would have found a letter to that effect awaiting him at Antwerp. . . . . . . . The Court adjourned

Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 22 NOV 1873
Record Source: the Court decided that they "are of opinion that it was a grave error in judgement on the part of the master in assuming that there had been any alteration in the deviation of his compasses since they were adjusted before the previous voyage, which does appear to have existed : and had he not negligently omitted to use his lead, more particularly as the weather was very hazy, he would have had ample warning that he was running his ship into danger, as he must have passed over a part of the sand on which there was from 6 to 7 fathoms of water. The Court therefore, suspends the certificate of Edward Whitfield GOUNDRY for six calendar months from this date." The Court would recommend the Board of Trade to grant Mr. GOUNDRY a certificate as mate at the end of three months.

Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 3 DEC 1873
Record Source: he was granted a Certificate of Competency as an Only Mate - he was living at 12 Nixon Street, Sandyford, Newcastle

Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 30 JAN 1874
Record Source: he was granted a Certificate of Competency as a First Mate - he was living at 12 Nixon Street

Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET JUN 1875 AND FEB 1876
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Ovington".

Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 1876
Record Source: he was Captain of the "Peter Graham" a 200 foot long iron single-screw schooner of 823 tons gross weight.

Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: BET 1876 AND 1901

Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: JUL 1876
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Allerwash", which sailed from Sunderland to Caen, France.

Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET MAY 1879 AND AUG 1879
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Hesledon Hall".

Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: OCT 1879
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Rosalind", and sailed from Cronstadt, Russia to Sharpness.

Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET SEP 1880 AND OCT 1881
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Ashfield".

Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: OCT 1881
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Maria".

Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET NOV 1881 AND APR 1882
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Ashfield".

Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: MAY 1882
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Bowesfield".

Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET JUL 1882 AND OCT 1882
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Ashfield".

Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 28 OCT 1882
Record Source: he was a witness in a case at Cardiff Police Court when a man was fined 20s. for illegally boarding the "Ashfield" when it was berthed at Roath Basin, Cardiff, while the Captain, Edwin W. GOUNDRY, was attending to the telegraph

Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET MAR 1883 AND DEC 1890
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS. "Driffield".

Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 11 JAN 1887
Record Source: he was Captain of the screw-steamer "Driffield" of Stockton. At 5.30 pm., 300 miles west of the Lizard he "sighted a brig showing distress signals. He bore down to her, and launched the lifeboat and pulled off to her, but was unable to get alongside owing to the heavy north-west sea running. However they managed to get off all the crew, consisting of seven seamen and the master. No attempt was made to tow the brig, as she had settled so low in the water. No doubt if the crew had not been taken off when they were they would have gone down with the ship before morning. They report having been pumping night and day for several days, and the leak gaining on them all the time. The name of the brig was "Eos", of Christiana, 13 days out from Ayr, bound to Demerara, coal-laden. The crew were transferred to a tug on the 13th inst., and landed at Falmouth"

Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: BET APR 1891 AND JUL 1891
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Bowesfield".

Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Date: 26 JAN 1897
Record Source: he proposed Mr. Jabez A. JONES (R) as a candidate in a forthcoming election in the Roath Ward.

Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Will
Event Date: 8 APR 1908
Event Place: 23 Marlborough Road, Roath, Cardiff
Record Source: described as a Retired Master Mariner

Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 19 JUN 1909
Event Place: 23 Marlborough Road, Roath, Cardiff
Record Source: Age:
69y

Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 9 SEP 1909
Event Place: the Principal Probate Registry, London
Record Source: His widow Jane was one of the Joint Executors, together with John Parker ELLERINGTON, of 1, Cranbourne-street, Leicester-square, Chemist, and William Gray HOWELL, of 53, Queen-street, Cardiff, Solicitor. They were appointed as guardians of his "infant son". All of his plate, linen, china, glass, books, pictures, prints, musical instruments, provisions, furniture and other household effects were left to his wife, together with £25 to be paid within one month of his death. All other real and personal estate was to be held in trust by his trustees in accordance with his instructions. His wife was to receive income from the trust for "maintaining clothing educating and bringing up my son John Firth GOUNDRY in a manner suitable to his station in life" until the age of 21. Following his wife's decease the capital and income from the trust was to be held in trust for his son until he reached the age of 25. If he did not reach that age the trust was to be held for Edward's wife. The gross value of his Estate was £864-7s-9d., the net value of his Personal Estate was £769-4s-10d