Is anyone involved in major studies of the personnel who served aboard the blockade runners during the Civil War? I have been able to confirm two persons, both buried in New Zealand, who were aboard blockade runners sailing out of Glasgow, Scotland, at different times, during the war. Both of them were engineers aboard their respective vessels, and one of them, who served aboard the THISTLE, is even mentioned in the pages of the OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. They were actually brothers in law, though they obviously did not serve aboard the same blockade running vessel.
One left Scotland in 1863, and arrived to settle in New Zealand in early 1864, while the other remained in Glasgow until he also migrated to New Zealand with his family, in 1869.
I would like to correspond with anyone who is involved in full time research on the personnel of the blockade runners, during the war, and will provide other details on both these gentleman, as I already have quite a bit of data on both gentlemen, who continued in their engineering careers, after they settled in New Zealand.