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Baby Francis's burial, which I expect you have:


Name of deceased NK Smyth
Last place of residence 5 Springmount St
Age 8 Days
Sex
Date of death 22 August 1902
Date of burial 23 August 1902
Cemetery City Cemetery - Public Ground
Grave section and number
Burial Type Earth Burial


But I'm afraid I can't see any sign of his father's death at sea or otherwise.

Not the one Malyon posted, assuming Agnes was telling the truth at baby Francis's death.

found this death


Francis Smyth
Ireland Civil Registration Indexes
Name Francis Smyth
Event Type Death
Event Date Apr - Jun 1915
Event Place Belfast, Ireland
Registration Quarter and Year Apr - Jun 1915
Registration District Belfast
Age 41
Birth Year (Estimated) 1874
Volume Number 1

For helpers' reference:


Census Years1901, Antrim, Court Ward, Springmount Street
Residents of a house 23 in Springmount Street (Court Ward, Antrim)


Smyth Lousia 3 Female Daughter Church of Ireland Co Antrim
Smyth Isabell 1 Female Daughter Church of Ireland Belfast -
Smyth Frank 27 Male Head of Family Church of Ireland Co Down Seaman Sailor
Smyth Agnes 27 Female Wife Church of Ireland Co Antrin -

I am trying to trace my husband's maternal 1 x gr grandfather Frank Smyth. He was a sailor/seaman who worked out of Ballyhalbert, Kircubbin in Northern Ireland and worked between Maryport, Cumberland on the Irish Sea and I think sailed on a ship called "Martha" registered in Belfast.

On the 1901 census he is at home with his wife and 2 very young daughters aged only 2 and 3 in Belfast . In August 1902 his wife Agnes gives birth to a baby boy (also called Francis Smyth) which dies at only one day old. Death certificate states "premature birth" and father is stated as "deceased sailor". I can only conclude he died sometime between 30/4/1901 and 21/8/1902. Family story was he drowned, but do not know when or circumstances? Any help at all would be great!