Month: November 2013

Genealogical Oddities (XXXII): An English Cook’s 1887 Death Shipboard Off Ibiza

While conducting research in Ibiza recently I came across the death record of William Alliston, who was taken ill and died aboard a yacht there on 3 April 1887. The record states that ‘Guillermo’ Alliston, native of Blandford in the county of Dorset, aged 43, married and a cook by trade, died aboard an English…