This ship could be named for CASWELL BAY which is in Swansea, South Wales. -----Original Message----- From: Helen Norton <nortonH@msn.com.au> To: Mike Caswell <mike@moonrakers.com> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 5:33 PM Subject: Fw: GEORGE EDWARD BEST >Hi Mike > >On my, even a ship called "The Caswell" ??? > >Helen > >-----Original Message----- > > >>Hello London, >> This is my first posting to this list.I have traced my G.G. >>Grandfather, Captain George Edward BEST, who was the victim of a brutal >>mutiny on board a Swansea registered ship "The Caswell", in the Jan of >1876. >> From newspaper reports in the Illustrated London News, I >>know that he was a Londoner. From what I can make out, he first appears on >a >>crew list in Swansea in 1866, and in the same year he was made a >>master.According to his marriage certificate, 30th April 1870, he was a >>widower, so he may have had a wife in London before he came down here.I >have >>no idea how old he was as the certificate states "of full age", but I do >>Know that his fathers name was Charles BEST, and that he was a master >>shipwright. >> Are any of the census's indexed up there, if so could someone >>check for a Charles BEST for me. >> > > > > > >