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The benefit of your knowledge please.
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Jen ~ | Report | 12 Apr 2006 20:26 |
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Having discovered two Mariners in the family and after receiving help on look ups for the census' I am still unable to discover what happened to them and their individual wives and families. Could you please advise me on my next move........what direction should I now be looking in please. Lin |
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Merry | Report | 12 Apr 2006 20:34 |
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Well, more than 50% of my mariners drowned :o(( Merry |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 12 Apr 2006 20:35 |
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When have you ' lost ' them? My mariners were from Sussex and I found cards in the Record Office in Chichester, logging all their record of service on various boats. Sometimes the wives were home on their own in a census, but one family from the Sussex coast were up in Lancashire in 1881 but returned to Sussex, presumably after a tour of duty up there. |
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Horatia | Report | 12 Apr 2006 20:35 |
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Being mariners they may have emigrated - have you thought of that? When do they disappear from the UK censuses? Cheers, Horatia |
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Jen ~ | Report | 12 Apr 2006 20:38 |
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Gwynneth, They cannot be found from 1861 onwards in any census! Their wives either. I'm thinking along the lines of what happened to Merry's Mariners! Even wondering if they ended up in another country? Lin |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 12 Apr 2006 20:49 |
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One of mine, ( the one mentioned in1881)diisappeared for many years before and after 1901,only to add a fancy middle name, - to put us off the scent,- and married for the 3rd time and took his wife Elizabeth to live in the same street as that which he and his 1st wife and family had lived in many years before. I've often wondered if he already knew Elizabeth and kept her in the wings, while he dallied with wife Number 2 back in Sussex. |
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Jen ~ | Report | 12 Apr 2006 20:52 |
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From all accounts, and from other peoples stories, it would appear that these two of mine will probably be my first real brick wall! Probably take me years to find them, still........it's interesting trying to discover what did happen to them. Lin |
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