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Name LEE, Ah Seng Born Kantung, China Died 9 Jan 1930 Age 45 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 111 In his book about Stromness, Odd Galteland tells us that.. ” the clergyman Sverre Eika officiated when Ah Seng Lee from Kwantung in China was buried. Ah Seng Lee was a sailor on board a […]

Name TALANTINO, Pauline Born St Vincent, 1901 Died 27 August 1920 Age 20 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 66 SPRI Ref 1228/17/32 According to the Coroner’s inquest in the SPRI archive, he was a ‘trimmer’ fetching coal for the boiler house and was buried when snow slid down onto the coal pile.

Name LOONEY, Charles Patrick Born Ireland Died 9 March 1918 Age – Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 49

Name ROBERTSON, Angus Born 1898 Died 1 February 1918 Age 24 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 47 A message from his great-great-nephew tells us that Angus Robertson was born on Newry, Ireland, in 1898. His mother and father moved to Ireland in 1897. The national ARchive logs show him as being born in 1897.

Name JOHANESSEN, Axel Verner Born Sweden, 11 May 1889 Died 12 February 1917 Age 38 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 43 Bob Headland’s Paper ‘Hvalfangernes Gravststeder I Antarktis’ tells us that Johanessen went by the alias Karl Albin Svensson.

Name ANDRESEN, Sigfred Born 20 November 1881 Died 8 November 1915 Age 27 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 38

Name SANDAHL, Johan E. Born Sweden, 19 May 1889 Died 29 October 1915 Age 26 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 36

Name HAMALANE, Gustav Born Estonia 1887 Died 29 October 1915 Age 28 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 37 SPRI Ref 1228/30/9 According to a letter in the SPRI archive: The “Hercules” returned from sea this evening about 6 o’clock with the dead body of the shooter: Hamalane by name who was accidentally killed on

Name JACOBS, Joseph Born Finland 1854 Died 23 September 1913 Age 59 Cemetery Stromness Grave Ref Unknown Register 22