Robert Livingston and George Steel traded as managers and shipbrokers under the title of G. Steel & Co. The partnership was dissolved in April 1889 with George carrying on trading as G. Steel & Co. In the same year Robert Livingston and Leonard Richard Conner went into partnership as Livingston, Conner & Co. R. Livingston & Co., and L.R. Conner & Co., were founded in 1899 with offices at Church Street, West Hartlepool with the partnership of Livingston, Conner & Co., officially dissolved in July 1900. L.R. Conner & Co. ceased trading in 1916.
Family History:
Leonard Richard Conner was born in c1842 at Greenwich. He married Sarah in 1865 and, by 1881, was living at Stranton with his wife & six children. By the following decade the family were living in Clifton Avenue, West Hartlepool. He died at Hartlepool on 25 July 1918. In his will he left £63, 792.
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Completed July 1905; Official No. 119874: Code Letters HCVM.
Owners: 1905 R Livingston & Co, West Hartlepool; 1915 Cambo Shipping Co (Morgan & Cadogan) West Hartlepool; 1917 Admiralty requistion as a Q ship & operated underr names Starmount, Graveny, Tring & Glenmay;1919 Kelvin Shipping Co Ltd (H Hogarth & Sons) Ardrossan-renamed Baron Douglas; 1929 Kirkatas Brothers, Andros–renamed Afroessa; 1941 French Government (C Schiaffino & Cie), France–renamed Sahara; 1943 Kirkatas Brothers, Andros- Afroessa; 1944 British Government (stores hulk at Freetown)–renamed Woolworth.
Masters: 1906 PA Braun; 1909-13 RG Richards.
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