Nautical records of the Listers
I visited the National Archives in Kew to see if I could find Merchant Navy records for any of the Listers. No luck with Thomas snr or jnr but I did find Samuel Lister's records on microfilm. I suspect that Thomas jnr didn't qualify as a ships officer.
One thing we do know about Thomas jnr was that he died when he fell into the hold of the SS Wiltshire in Bootle Docks in 1913. A bit of research uncovered that the SS Wiltshire was wrecked in New Zealand nine years later with the crew and passengers (plus a stowaway) being rescued by bosun's chair by a party on the shore. Check Thomas's page on my web site.
Thomas jnr's second son Albert Samuel was also a seaman and died on the D3 submarine in the first world war - after it was bombed by a French airship! So that gives three generations of seafaring Listers but most of the surviving Lister descendants now live in Australia.
One thing we do know about Thomas jnr was that he died when he fell into the hold of the SS Wiltshire in Bootle Docks in 1913. A bit of research uncovered that the SS Wiltshire was wrecked in New Zealand nine years later with the crew and passengers (plus a stowaway) being rescued by bosun's chair by a party on the shore. Check Thomas's page on my web site.
Thomas jnr's second son Albert Samuel was also a seaman and died on the D3 submarine in the first world war - after it was bombed by a French airship! So that gives three generations of seafaring Listers but most of the surviving Lister descendants now live in Australia.
posted by Steve Greenham | 7:25 pm
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