George Wailey

George Wailey was born in Cork, Ireland in 1832. At the height of the Famine, his family took ship to New York. Whether he could not settle in the States is not known but George came to Liverpool aboard another ship around 1850.He stayed going away to sea all his life. He married Caroline Brown in Liverpool in the 1850's then in his mid 20's. Their first child Geraldine died in 1868.He and Caroline then went on to produce five sons, all born in Liverpool. George was born in 1870, John in 1872, William Patrick in 1874 (decorated at the battle of the Transvaal in 1902), Francis James in 1876 and the youngest, Henry in 1879.They lived in waterside Kirkdale just up the road from the Canada dock, the main timber dock of the north end of the city. Apart from Francis James who was a house painter, all the sons were either seamen or dockers.George died in 1887,at the age of 55 when he was washed overboard from the deck of a small cargo ship in the Celtic sea off the coast of Somerset His death is recorded in Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958 DEATH, BURIAL, CEMETERY & OBITUARIESand in the UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea, 1844-1890