Year |
Name |
Owner |
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1890 | Gleneden | Livingston, Conner & Co. |
Bound from Windau, Russia for Dublin with a cargo of wood sleepers & a crew of 20 Gleneden went ashore & filled with water on Ballastkier Reef, 20 miles E by S of the Naze, Norway on 28 September 1891. No lives lost. Master: 1890-91 Edward Fell (b. 1862 Staithes).
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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