Ann Brownrigg wrote: <snip> >Inventory shows assets totalling £498.16.00, of which £450 >represents a ship and rigging (unnamed but perhaps traceable >through the Barrow Archives??). <snip> Is that a part share in a ship? I don't think that I've ever seen ownership of a whole vessel, and £450 would be a touch cheap anyway. One possible way of tracing this would be to look through the port records kept at the PRO. These would at least tell you what ships were active then, as well as listing the master and the owners of the goods being carried - you might spot a Banks or a Brownrigg. Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net