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A COCK sparrow became a SANDOE
Isaac Cock, baptised in 1826 at Calstock (Cornwall, England), changed his surname to Sandoe in the 1850s. He landed at Sydney on 27 May 1857 as Isaac Sandoe, the boatswain and second mate of the John Bunyon of Aberdeen. He … Continue reading
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Tagged family history, genealogy, Isaac Cock, Isaac Sandoe, Sandoe
Three ships named “William Miles”
There were three ships named William Miles in the 19th century. The Sando/w/e interest is Captain Ralph Sheldon Kindley, the Master of one of them for a few years, dying on board in 1840. They were built and operated by … Continue reading
Posted in family history, genealogy, Kindley, Lord Melville, Merchant Ships, Migration, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, William Miles
Tagged family history, genealogy, Kindley, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, William Miles
Sando/w/es in the Crimea
Two Sandoes are known to have taken part in the Crimean War: William Sandoe (1825-1862), the Captain’s Steward on HMS Malacca, and Alexander Dingle Sandoe (1831-1857), a seaman on HMS Sanspareil, the guardship for the flagship HMS Agamemnon at Sebastopol. … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimea, family history, genealogy, Royal Navy, Sando, Sandoe, Sandow, Sandowe, Sebastapol
Francis Sandoe and the London Poverty Survey
Charles Booth (1830-1916) was a Liverpool businessman (a dealer in leather and skins, and a steamship operator), a philanthropist, initially Unitarian but eventually agnostic. From 1883 to 1903 he led and published the London Poverty Survey. Francis Sandoe (1834-1886) was … Continue reading
Sidney Sandoe’s ships
Sidney Richard John Sandoe 1868-1911 1883-1885 Sidney Sandoe entered the Royal Navy as a boy entrant at Devonport, HMS Impregnable. This is HMS Impregnable in 1896, formerly HMS Howe, at Devonport since 1888. Sidney’s HMS Impregnable was the former HMS … Continue reading
Who was Charles Perthlin?
Revised 15 Dec 2017 – postscript 2 On the eleventh of July 1902, a young woman died in Cardiff following childbirth. She was Lucy Jane Perthlin, formerly Sandoe, born in Cardiff in 1873, the daughter of William Sandoe and Mary, … Continue reading
Richard Henry Sandoe 1870-1915
Updated 13 Nov 2017 (army service in 1890s). Private Richard Henry Sandoe was reported missing presumed killed near Ypres on 23 Apr 1915. The British army records for the Great War were mostly destroyed in the 1940 London Blitz, and all that remain … Continue reading
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Sidney Richard John Sandoe
Family legends Sidney Richard John Sandoe (1868-1911) was Richard John Sidney on his birth certificate, and was known to his shipmates as Dick. Whenever I asked where Sidney Sandoe came from, I was told it was from Falmouth in Cornwall, from a … Continue reading
Sando/w/es in WW1
This list is not complete. Many WW1 British Service Records were destroyed or damaged in 1940. Other records have not yet been seen or found. Civilian casualties are even more difficult to find. Updated 8 October 2017, 22 Nov 2017, … Continue reading
The Sando/w/e name
The origin of the name Sando/w/e The name has several origins internationally: In Mecklenburg, Germany: the Latin form Sandoviensis (degrading to Sandovie etc) is known from mediaeval documents such as Rostock university registers, and means “a person from neighbouring Sandau-an-der-Elbe“. … Continue reading
