In a message dated 11/02/2008 16:41:02 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I am also interested in these Trafalgar records - looking for the death of James BROWN in 1866 aged about 37. The only publshed records (microfiche facsimiles of the originals, plus an index) of Sunderland's Trafalgar Square Seamens' Almshouses refer to applications for admission either as an in-dweller or as a person receiving "outdoor" relief. While fascinating , especially where old mariners list the whole of their careers, with evidence to back up their claim that they have had a hard life, with many illnesses, accidents and other privations, they do seem to relate only to the late 1840s and early 1850s. I say "seem to" because they are actually undated. Deaths are not listed, even for those periods. Geoff Nicholson