On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 11:42:05 AM UTC+1, melanie chesnel wrote: > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 11:02:31 AM UTC+1, Anne Chambers wrote: > > melanie chesnel wrote: > > > > > > > > thanks for that . > > > 'Run 28 August 1856 at Shields' fits more or less with what I could see, it was the next bit which I thought might be Decd and took to mean deceased. Looking at an entry above this now looks more like Recd which I presume means "recorded". What the third bit says maybe writ 12/9/56. Do you think this means he jumped ship in "Sheilds" in August and his Uncle issued a writ for the broken indentures contract in September? Would "Sheilds" be Tyne side or somewhere else? > > > All very intriguing > > > regards melanie > > > > > I took 'Shields' to be South Shields, Tyneside > > > > -- > > Anne Chambers > > South Australia > > > > anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com > > thanks once again - I have spent the morning googling but can't find anything which explains the annotations on the register. There is a ship Tam O'Shanter registered at the time in Liverpool but no Ian O'Shanter registered anywhere in Britain at the time according to Http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/vesselsalpha.php. If the William Fisher to whom he was indentured is the master of the ship, what ever its name, then it is more likely to be his Uncle's son rather than the uncle. There were several generations of William fishers in Winscales, Workington and Liverpool, all ship owners, masters or merchants which I am trying to get a grip on. It is all so tantalizing > regards melanie Just an update in case interested parties are following this: from http://mightyseas.perso.sfr.fr/marhist/workington_harrington/tam_oshanter.htm Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1837-8: Tam O'Shanter, 270 tons, owned by W.Fisher, registered at Whitehaven. Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1845-6: Tam O'Shanter, barque, 270 tons, owned by Fisher & Co., registered at Liverpool, voyage Liverpool - Jamaica. Mercantile Navy List 1857: Tam O'Shanter, 220 tons, official number 32888, registered at Liverpool. I still haven't found an expert who can explain exactly what the annotations in the register mean, but I am definitely making a connection between Cumbrian Fishers and Liverpool regards melanie