On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 9:41:04 PM UTC+1, Anne Chambers wrote: > melanie chesnel wrote: > > http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/5308959/person/-1440099447/facts > > > > the above is a link to UK, Apprentices Indentured in Merchant Navy, 1824-1910 on Ancestry and I am interested in the red writing above the entry for Younghusband Fisher who is apprenticed to his uncle William Fisher. I think it means he died before the indenture finished but I am not sure. Any help would be gratefully received > > regards melanie chesnel > > > I read the first bit as 'Run 28 August 1856 at Shields' - he doesn't seem to have died until 1861 according to > FreeBMD > > -- > Anne Chambers > South Australia > > anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com 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