Thanks, Lorna. Lyn in Melbourne >-- Original Message -- >From: "Lorna Leadbetter" <leadbetter@lineone.net> >To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> >Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:02:59 +0100 >Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Mariner Deaths at Sea >Reply-To: cornish-gen@rootsweb.com > > >Rowena - yes, go to >http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp and >you >will find an alphabetical list of research guides on many different >subjects, including several relating to merchant navy officers and seamen. > >Lorna > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rowena Gough" <rfgough@optusnet.com.au> >To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:54 AM >Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Mariner Deaths at Sea > > >> Apologies Lorna, but what is the TNA Research Guide? Do you mean the >> National Archives in Britain? >> >> Rowena >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cornish-gen-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:cornish-gen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lorna Leadbetter >> Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2010 5:02 PM >> To: cornish-gen@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Mariner Deaths at Sea >> >> TNA Research Guide on Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea, Domestic >> Records >> Information.61 gives information on this subject. >> >> Lorna >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rowena Gough" <rfgough@optusnet.com.au> >> To: <CORNISH-GEN@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:43 AM >> Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Mariner Deaths at Sea >> >> >>> Dear Listers >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a query re 'deaths at sea'. I have a Cornish Master Mariner, >>> >>> Thomas Noall from St Ives who married Elizabeth Freeman Shugg on 9 March >>> 1845. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thomas was the son of Matthew Noall and Jane Cogar, bapt. 29 Aug 1824, >>> Scilly Islands. His father was a mariner. I've been unable to find Thomas >>> in >>> any Census, but his wife is listed as a master mariner's wife in the 1851 >>> and 1861 census. >>> >>> >>> >>> I've been trying to find a death record for he and his wife, with no >>> success. Elizabeth is recorded in the 1891 Census living with her >>> daughter-in-law in Illogan, but FreeBMD deaths for Elizabeth Noall's do >>> not >>> match her age at death. Would anyone be able to check the 1901 and 1911 >>> census for Elizabeth for me? She was born in 1821, St Ives. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thomas appears to be at sea for the first 3 Census. I couldn't find him > >>> in >>> the 1841 either (or his father). And the only death record I could find > >>> on >>> FreeBMD doesn't match his age. >>> >>> >>> >>> This raised the question for me re deaths at sea of Master Mariners. Are >>> the >>> pre civil registration deaths for captains and masters recorded, and if > >>> so >>> where? I've not been able to find anything searching the National >>> Archives. >>> >>> >>> >>> Would all deaths at sea post 1837 be registered? And would there be >>> specific >>> records listing captains and masters? Is there a specific Maritime >>> Archive >>> holding this information? >>> >>> >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> Rowena >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com >>> >>> Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription >>> information >> >>> http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com >> >> Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information >> http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com >> >> Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information > >> http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > >------------------------------- >Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > >Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information >http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com >with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body >of the message