Jordan. Claude Stephen

The son of  Thomas Stephen and Mary Hammond Jordan, who lived at 18 St Helens Street, Elsecar, he was born in Sculcoates on the 17th April 1901, Claude's body was found drowned on the 29th May 1917, in the River Humber, Drypool district of Kingston Upon Hull, he had been missing for seven months and died aged 15 years.

 

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Picture from Beryl Ambler

Barnsley Chronicle 2nd June 1917, page 8, under the Hoyland section:

Late on Tuesday evening, Mr and Mrs Jordan, of St Helens Street Elsecar,
received a message from Hull that the body of their son, Claude Jordan,
had been recovered from the docks at Hull.
Deceased had been missing for seven months. 


At the time Claude went missing his ship was docked, it's believed, that he was going ashore for a night out with his shipmates when the Captain asked him to deliver a note to another ship, and while jumping from ship to ship, it's thought, he slipped and fell between vessels to his death.

Claude served on the same ship as his brother William Burnett Jordan. Their Grandfather was William Burnett, Master Mariner, who's death certificate shows he died "In sea just outside Odessa breakwater" Russia in 1908 .

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