List members - I recently subscribed to FindMyPast, and I found they have death duty registers. I found listed on the 1810 Canterbury Prerogative Court register, a mariner listed: #215 - Obery otherwise Obrey, John, seaman, H.M. Ship Pandour. His will is listed at TNA with the same name, John O’bery also Obrey, dated 1806. He was then on HM Sloop S/L Epervier. The will was proved in 1810, and a sailmaster on the ship Epervier was named Executor of the will. I would like to find more information about the death duty that was owed, the inventory of his estate, and any relatives that might have been listed. Does anyone know where I would find this information? I had assumed he died while aboard the Epervier, but may have been wrong. I did a little reading about H.M. Ship Pandour, and I cannot figure out if the ship was at sea in 1810. Would he have been owed some money while serving aboard the Pandour, and that is why the ship is listed on the death duty register? Any mariners out there who understand how this worked and where I’d find the paperwork? Many thanks for any information, Lynne in Tucson

Lynne, I would guess that he was on L'epervier when he wrote the will, but was on the Pandour when he died. The will you can get from TNA, I'm noy sure about the details of the death duty. Dai On 28/09/2013 02:17, Lynne Ingalls wrote: > List members - > > I recently subscribed to FindMyPast, and I found they have death duty registers. I found listed on the 1810 Canterbury Prerogative Court register, a mariner listed: #215 - Obery otherwise Obrey, John, seaman, H.M. Ship Pandour. > > His will is listed at TNA with the same name, John O’bery also Obrey, dated 1806. He was then on HM Sloop S/L Epervier. The will was proved in 1810, and a sailmaster on the ship Epervier was named Executor of the will. > > I would like to find more information about the death duty that was owed, the inventory of his estate, and any relatives that might have been listed. Does anyone know where I would find this information? I had assumed he died while aboard the Epervier, but may have been wrong. I did a little reading about H.M. Ship Pandour, and I cannot figure out if the ship was at sea in 1810. Would he have been owed some money while serving aboard the Pandour, and that is why the ship is listed on the death duty register? > > Any mariners out there who understand how this worked and where I’d find the paperwork? > > Many thanks for any information, > Lynne in Tucson > > ================================ > Dyfed list REVISED resources http://home.clara.net/daibevan/DyfedML.html [Dec2012] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DYFED-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The death duty registers themselves are in the National Archives at Kew: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details?Uri=C9364 Some of them are available online, but the one you're interested in might be just too late... Helen Wright www.colevalleygirl.co.uk www.genquiry.com Moderator, www.genealogy.stackexchange.com >List members - I recently subscribed to FindMyPast, and I found they have death duty registers. I found listed on the 1810 Canterbury Prerogative Court register, a mariner listed: #215 - Obery otherwise Obrey, John, seaman, H.M. Ship Pandour. His will is listed at TNA with the same name, John O’bery also Obrey, dated 1806. He was then on HM Sloop S/L Epervier. The will was proved in 1810, and a sailmaster on the ship Epervier was named Executor of the will.