Re: (erielack) FW: barges

[bob gillis <rpgillis_@_bellatlantic.net>]

Jim, I found Martin T Nesbitt in the US Social Security Death Index:

Nesbitt, Martin T, born 1 Apr 1899 died 18 Feb 1963.  He may have died
in a US Veterans Administration Hospital,  He was a Railroad worker and
his RRA number was 706-12-1494.

If you go to http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi and search for
him you will find a link to an SS-5 letter form  which for $27 will get
you his application for the RRA.

Do a Google search on Railroad Retirement and you may find a web site
that will give you more info about finding information on him.

Look on http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/ for mailing lists for Railroad
Retirement, Nesbit/tt, and Jersey City or Hudson County NJ and ask
there.

Ask for a lookup in a Jersey City newspaper for an obit or in Jersey
City City Directories for him.  You can also search for the jersey City
Library and they may find and make a copy of the obit.

good luck, bob gillis, railfan and genealogist

"Paul R. Tupaczewski" wrote to the erie Lackawanna list:
> 
> Can anyone help Jim?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Zeiher [mailto:jimzeiher_@_hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:51 PM

> I am looking for information that either gives me direct leads to
> finding
> the family of Martin T Nesbitt, say by finding someone who might have
> worked
> with him, or some records such as did the Barge people have a Union etc,
> or
> maybe just indirect details such as the life of people who worked on the
> 
> barges.  Sometimes just getting an appreciation of that can be useful in
> 
> providing leads.
> 
> Martin and my grandfather were first cousins.  The family all came from
> a
> pretty tough area of Liverpool in England and all worked in the maritime
> 
> industry. As Martin died 40 years ago it might be stretching it to find
> someone he worked with but you never know.  He was only 60 or so when he
> 
> crossed the bar.
> 
> I have been researching my family mainly in the UK and I had been
> looking at
> travelling over there later this year.  It looks the way I'm heading
> that it
> could well be a round the world event.
> 
> Was it a family based occupation - I came from the Port of Adelaide and
> you
> needed to be related to someone to crack a job.
> 
> Many thanks for your reply and I hope to enjoy finding out about
> relatives
> in the US of A and the life of people in the industry on the wharves.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Jim Zeiher
> Canberra Australia

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