The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.1 | June 2021

Searchers

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Abbreviations used: b = born, bap = baptised, bd = buried, c. = circa, C = Century, d. = died, mrd = married. Members are reminded that these pages are compiled from letters etc. that may have been written months beforehand, so postal addresses should always be checked for up to date changes.

John Hoar (Member #6419) john.e.n.hoar@gmail.com

Peter Callaghan

I would be grateful for research suggestions to discover what happened to Peter, who disappeared from records in 1907, at the age of 53, having sailed as master on the tanker 'Terek'. On 6 September 1907 he was relieved as master in Hamburg, in what appears to have been a routine change, after which no record of him can be found.

Peter was born on 7th January 1854 in Hardway, Gosport to Peter and Sylvestry (nee BARNETT ) CALLAGHAN , the youngest of six children. The family had moved to Under Shore, Clarence Square, Gosport at the time of the 1861 Census. In 1870 Peter went to sea as a 'boy' with the War Department Fleet, supplying ships of the Royal Navy with armaments and equipment. By the time of the 1871 Census, the

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