I am looking for information on a merchant marine ship that sank between 1866-1870. Supposedly there were 5 who got into a lifeboat and only 2 survived. A Jan Magnus Eriksson and another man. Karl Ekstrom lutefisk70@bellsouth.net
There used to be a category called "Shipping News" in the Historical Newspaper section at www.genealogybank.com. In the "new" configuration its no longer available to search. But inputting for a first name as "sinking" and last name as "ship" with your dates produced about 1390 references. Of course a little tough to weed out such references to politics as "rats leaving a sinking ship" and so on, but you could look....
Jan Magnus Eriksson Ekstrom was born 1/11/1844 in Hjartungen, Ör, Dalsland, Sweden. He went to Norway in 1863.I have verified this on the Swedish church records He married 8/31/1866 in Froland, Aust-Agder, Norway. The family story is that he was a merchant marine and the ship went down. The 1900 census says he came to America in 1870. His wife Berthe Gurine Olsdatter came with her son Erik Emil Erickson in 1871. Cannot find a ship manifest with her name as there is a good possiblity that they came into Quebec and a lot of those ship donot have ship manifests posted. i will check out this website. Thanks for the help Karl
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Posted - 30/10/2012 : 20:42:43
