People - Regiment: MM S/S "Burma" (Goole)

Gillyon, James Walter

BORN BEVERLEY 1869. SON OF GODFREY GILLYON (1834-1907) & ANN GRAY (1845-1903), 0F 56 BECKSIDE, BEVERLEY.  A DOCK LABOURER AND SEAM. HE COMPETED IN THE MARINER SPORTS SPCIETY RACES FOR YEARS AND APPEARED IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. HE MARRIED AT BEVERLEY, ON 08/11/1891. HIS WIFE, SARAH GRIFFIN (1870-1942), LIVED 23 RICHARD COOPER STREET, GOOLE. THEY … Read more

Duffill, Tom William

BORN GOOLE 1888. SON OF WILLIAM BIELBY & ANNIE DUFFILL, GOOLE. MARRIED GOOLE 1910. WIFE ADA (HEMMINGWAY). MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. SS Burma, built by S. P. Austin & Son, Sunderland in 1891 and owned at the time of her loss by Bennett Steamship Co. Ltd., Goole, was a British steamer of 706 tons. On June … Read more