[BITList] Fwd: BISN Itaura

[David Harvey]

On 15 September 2011 16:33, John Davison <davison.g at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> **
> Affirmative Burns Philp ; was it Phelp ? were only Pacific traders but they
> did venture to Spore and HK !
>
>
>
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> *From:* John Feltham <wantok at me.com>
> *To:* BITList <BITList at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 15, 2011 7:25 PM
> *Subject:* [BITList] Fwd: BISN Itaura
>
>  G'day folks,
>
> Can any tell us where the seaman's records are stored in the UK please?
>
> Burns Philps, to my knowledge only sailed around the South Pacific Islands,
> by I may be wrong.
>
> Their HQ was located here in Townsville.
>
>
> ooroo
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Eileen Pye <eileenpye at bigpond.com>
> *Subject: **BISN Itaura*
> *Date: *15 September 2011 10:44:36 AM AEST
> *To: *John Feltham <wantok at me.com>
>
>  John,
>
> I  know of your interest in BISN Co. through reading INDIA Roots messages
> over the years.
>
> My father Gerald Stuart O'Brien was in Merchant Navy for about 5 years from
> about 1897 to 1904 but it was only recently that I found his name as
> clerk on a ship from a Burns Philp list.  It  was  on a voyage of SS
> "Itaura" to Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne in 1903 so hopefully I will be able
> to trace  his time at sea now that I at least know the name of one of the
> ships he was on.
>
>  He left his home in Calcutta when he was 16/17 after a disagreement with
> his family - a rebellious teenager - and "went to sea". So he started off
> from Calcutta.  His father was Head Storekeeper for Kidderpore Docks.
>
> After he left the sea,  G.S. O'Brien was in Rangoon and worked for Port
> Authority & Thomas Cook & Sons. before coming to Australiai in 1912.
>
> I  know he had been to England, that he had been on sailing ships but don't
> know how to work back from "Itaura"?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  Eileen Pye
>
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