Thomas Clancy

Notes:

Evening Telegram, St. John's. Monday - Sept. 17, 1888
LOST OVERBOARD - Fatal Accident to a Bank Fisherman - The banking schooner "William" Capt. J. Williams, which arrived yesterday, reports a very sad accident, resulting in the loss of one of her crew, a man named Thos. Clancy of Caplin Bay. It seems that on Friday night last, when in latitude 46.35, longitude 49.20, while in the act of reefing the mainsail the vessel lurched and threw Clancy over the boom. With the hope of assisting him to keep afloat till a boat could be got out, several articles were thrown overboard by the captain. The vessel was brought to at once and a dory launched. Notwithstanding the heavy sea and imminent risk to life, two brave fellows volunteered to search in the darkness and danger for their unfortunate shipmate and lost no time in pushing off from the schooner's side. Their efforts, however, proved unsuccessful, and they were obliged to return without him. Two or three more times they narrowly escaped being engulfed and it was only by the merest chance they regained the "William". The melancholy fate of the deceased is deeply deplored by all who knew him. (transcription courtesy of Audrey Swain).

Birth:
No information has been found to indicate where and when Thomas was born, however, it is likely that he was born at Caplin Bay, since no baptism record was found in Holy Apostles Parish, Fermeuse/Renews. He is first mentioned in an 1883 land sale.