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Hello all, I was wondering if you could help me with an ancestor, George
William Churchill, born in Portsea in 1850, who served on board the HMS St
Vincent (Royal Navy training ship) and then had a lifelong career in the
Royal Navy.
Ten years of this career was spent as a coastguard at Malinmore, Co Donegal,
Ireland, where he moved with his young wife Elisabeth (nee Stratton) and
they had five children between 1880 and 1888. I've exhausted the Irish route
as far as I can - no records of his death in Ireland (though I have to
re-check this via the local records when I can get to Co Donegal
personally). The Irish coastguard hold no record, and the British coastguard
don't have any more than is already in his naval record.
I have his full service record for his Royal Navy service and also for his
spell as coastguard. However... the record ends, rather suddenly, with the
words "feared mad".
The mystery is, what happened to him between the dated entry at the end of
his record (dated 1891) and the next time we hear from the family - when
Elisabeth had another child by her second husband, John Smith, having
returned to Portsmouth, in 1897.
I'm pretty sure he died. But there's no record I can find of his death,
anywhere in the UK. That doesn't rule it out, of course - might be a gap in
the records somewhere - but I'm not sure whether he died in Ireland, or was
brought back to Portsmouth by the Royal Navy (there's a hand-me-down family
memory that he died in hospital) or somewhere else entirely. And of course,
he was probably committed to a lunatic asylum at some stage, either under
the Royal Navy's auspices or privately.
His father is called Charles Churchill, and he (George) was born in Portsea.
Anybody got anything on him and/or Charles?
Many thanks,
Sally Nex