On Wednesday, February 4, 1998 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, JLWY...@aol.com wrote:   
   > I am looking for any information about my husband's ancestor, an Irish sea   
   > captain named Frederick Wherland, b. 1834? in England or Ireland. His mother   
   > was the daughter of a Lord Seymour, and his father was a colonel in the   
   > English Army.   
   >   
   >  Appx. 1859(?) Capt. Wherland married the daughter (No first name given) of a   
   > Sir Thomas Deane of Cork, Ireland. She was born appx. 1849?:  Her mother was   
   a   
   > Sommerful, daughter of a Lord Sommerful.  They had several children, many   
   born   
   > on while on voyages:   
   >   
   > Fred Wherland, died at age 7 months.   
   > Sarah "Sally" Wherland, born May 22nd, 1861, LONDON   
   > John Neptune Wherland, born while crossing the equator   
   > Willie Wherland, born in Bombay, India   
   > Fred Wherland, born while his father's ship was "doubling the 'horn'"   
   > Frank Wherland, born at Birkenhead, Liverpool   
   > Herbert Wherland, born on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, the day the great   
   > fire broke out in 1906.   
   >   
   > This is the information I have from a book written by his ggGrandmother,   
   Sally   
   > Archer-Burton.   
   >   
   > Some of the ships Captain Wherland sailed were:   
   >   
   > Columbine...on shipping voyages to Peru, India, America.  He sailed the   
   > Columbine for many years.   
   >   
   > Tudor...."carried about 1500 passengers, 700 cabins, the rest steerage, 40   
   > sailors, , first and second mate and third mate, and the captain's men."  The   
   > Tudor burned while carrying a load of cotton to Peru.  It had an iron mast.   
   > The family was rescued by a Captain Fred Linstaedt, who also later moved to   
   > Fairmont, Minnesota, USA.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > The Galatea.....built in Glasgow Scotland.  Building of the ship was   
   > supervised by Captain Wherland.  I have the date 1870 for her first voyage,   
   to   
   > Australia, around to San Francisco, home by Marseilles back to Liverpool.  It   
   > was the Galatea that they travelled on in 1906 to San Francisco, when the   
   > Telegraph Hill fire broke out.   
   >   
   > The family emmigrated from England to New York to Fairmont, Minnesota, on The   
   > National line, sailed by a Captain Webster.  The ship left England on June   
   17,   
   > 1876.   
   >   
   > I noticed that the time frame doesn't make sense, since the youngest brother   
   > was supposedly born in 1906 on a voyage, even though the Captain supposedly   
   > gave up sailing and emmigrated in 1876.   ????   
   >   
   >   
   > Captain Wherland sailed for a line owned by a Mr. S. R. Graves, First Lord of   
   > the Admiralty.  This is according to a book written by Capt. Wherland's   
   > daughter, Sally, who married a Lenny Archer-Burton.   
   >   
   > Other names mentioned in her book:   
   >   
   > Another daughter of Sir THOMAS DEANE married a frenchman, surname LE PAN,   
   also   
   > a sea captain.   
   > Sally attended school in CORK, IRE, and finished at MILLROSE COTTAGE,   
   > Birkenhead, Liverpool, a school conducted by a Miss Hayes.   
   >   
   > Captain Wherland had a brother named James WHERLAND, and his country home was   
   > called OLDWOOD, a large estate.  James was a doctor at MillRose Cottage   
   > school.   
   >   
   > There was an Uncle Lyster in Australia, probably Melbourne, but she does not   
   > indicate if he was her mother or father's brother, so it could have been   
   > either Wherland or Deane.   
   >   
   >   
   > If you have any info that would help me, I'd appreciate an email.   
   >   
   > Thank you,   
   >   
   > Julie   
   > JLWychor@aol.com   
      
   I can provide some information as I live in Fairmont, Minn., where Wherland   
   lived (and Archer-Burton is buried). Our local history museum has a lot of   
   items from his home, too. Not sure if this email is still valid for you,   
   though.   
      
   Liz   
      
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