The Wells family originated in Scarborough but I've not had much success in discovering anything about them :<( Think you finding Hannah in a directory as a widow would be unlikely, unless she was well off, perhaps owned a farm or reasonable sized house, ran her own business. Do you know what kind of mariner Thomas Owston was, if he was in the Navy or a merchant seaman, fisherman, that you could look at more specific records for his death. Have you tried local newspapers using just his surname in case he was listed as one crew-member amongst others. Have you looked for a marriage of the last child/ren to see the name given for the father? Could Hannah have applied for local financial help when his ship was presumed lost? When looking through the B.T.'s for Scarborough I noticed there were many burial entries for men and boys drowned with no names and merely guesses as to their ages. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: [email protected] GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Owston via" <[email protected]> To: "Goons Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 6:51 PM Subject: [G] Scarborough Research > Folks: > > I am looking for city directories for Scarborough in the 1870s. I am > trying to pinpoint a death of a mariner at sea. No burial records > exist as he was not buried in the local parish. His death occurred > between 1871 and January 1878. > > The directories may list his wife as a widow and this may pinpoint a > year of death. > > The sailor's name was Thomas Owston born 1840 - married to Hannah Pockley. > > The date of death will aid in determining the paternity of his > children, as some were clearly born years after his death. The > paternity of several of his older children are in question. > > Thanks for any help in this matter. > > -- > Jim > > James M. Owston, EdD > Owston One-Name Study > #5647 > [email protected] > http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?find=5647 > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message