Help solve the case - Missing Irish Villagers.

http://lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.ca/2008/06/eighth-viscount-bangor.html


Looks like the last one didn't die in 1899...

It's the villagers, not the oppressors, people are looking for.

I realize that but your article mentions the last of the line died in 1899 when it appears they're still alive.

Who is still alive? The villagers haven't been seen since they got on the boat. Where are their descendants? Did they make it to the americas or were they killed beforehand.. That's the question.
Your article doesn't mention these people, only the aristocrat assholes that put them on the boat.

If the boat/ship is missing too, then it could have been lost at sea.

Yes, Foofie it could, as the article said.

if we put any weight on option 2, where did the ship go?

seems like an effort to get some attention through a tabloid approach. I expect better of the BBC

There is some question as to the real name. It was reportedly called the Rose, but that's not written in stone either.
I think it's an interesting mystery. The ship might not have gone to the states, it could have ended up in the Caribbean or Australia or even Canada. That's why they are looking for any descendants.
It wasn't unusual for this type of thing to happen, but normally someone spilled the beans later..

I agree with ehBeth, this is not up to BBC standards. If the ship was indeed named the Rose (or anything even remotely similar) it was no doubt insured by Lloyds of London for any transatlantic voyage. There should be records in Lloyd's archives as to where the vessel ended up.

Incidentally, it was not uncommon for unsuspecting Irish immigrants to end up in Mexico or elsewhere in Central or South America when they thought they were getting a ride to the USA. Unscrupulous ships' captains would tell 'em, "Oh, yes, we'll take you to America for quite a few bob less than the competition." And, technically,they kept their word -- the immigrants wound up someplace on the American continent, just not where they thought they were going. During the Potato Famine, they were happy toget to the Yucatan Peninsula in preference to starving back home.

Jesus, doesn't anyone read? Seriously, the BBC was reporting what local historians asked them to do. So the BBC can't help find the descendants? It's been a mystery for almost two centuries. All they are asking is if there is a trace of the villagers left and this is somehow beneath the Beeb.
Welcome to a2k, the only place where they can dissect a tomato a million ways and still not get to the heart of the matter.
**** it. Let's discuss incest or start another thread about American politics and over analyze something completely stupid, and do it to death.
I'm done.
Discussion closed.
I'm bored with this site.

If there is anyone that claims to have been related to the lost villagers then DNA testing of that/those people could then be compared to any "matching" DNA elsewhere. One day, I would guess, DNA testing will be more standard, and we will know who we are related to. Right now it will just remain a mystery, I would think.

The last of persons LEFT BEHIND died in 1899-the 200+ on the boat were never heard of!
The ship, the Rose, was owned by Scottish shipping firm in Aberdeen and did not sink but continued its runs to pick up guano in Peru. Its scheduled runs were always through the Caribbean to South America.