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Roll of Honour

Hartlepool seafarers lost at sea

Hanson, Albert

Messroom Steward
Greatham Street, West Hartlepool
West Hartlepool
1902
17/10/1917

Lost on the steamship Manchuria. 

Albert Hanson was born at West Hartlepool in 1902, to parents John Edward and Mary Jane Hanson.

The 1911 Census records John as a Norwegian resident, born in 1858, with an occupation listed as Stationary Engineman. Mary Jane was born in Liverpool in 1868. This Census shows them living in Greatham Street, West Hartlepool, with their children Herman Stanley (aged 13), Olga Elfreda (11), Albert (9), Harold (7), and Arthur (3).