Thanks for these links Piers. I shall set aside a wet weekend soon to go through everything and see what I can come up with. I think that there may be more info at WSRO which is reasonably easy to get to (when I visit my mum) and we might also have to go to Portsmouth and/or Southampton if I am reading some of the records correctly. I'm sure we'll get there - slowly! thanks again, Anne Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:33:05 +0100 Subject: Re: Testers from Shoreham From: pierssc@gmail.com To: alc_goytre@hotmail.com; mariners@rootsweb.com Knew I'd seen them online somewhere! Crew Agreements are the thing. Go to this page and have a look at examples of Foreign and Home Trade Crew Agreements: https://www.mun.ca/mha/mlc/toolkit/agreements/ If you can track down the crew agreements for the relevant people, they should with luck state the birthplaces and ages which should enable you to link the various people of the right name, to people born in the relevant places at that time via BMD records. Having found the Official Numbers of the vessels you want, you can search at the Newfoundland website to see what agreements they have. https://www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/searchcombinedcrews.php Note that MHA try to tell you if other institutions have agreements, but some agreements in other places may not have been picked up by MHA, also note that MHA file by the year the voyage ended, whereas other institutions tend to file by the year it started! CheersPiers On 5 September 2015 at 15:16, Anne Capewell <alc_goytre@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi Piers and Adi, Many thanks for your replies. You have kindly given me several avenues to explore. Having looked at these briefly I can see that it will be a gradual process of finding one of the ships, finding where the records are held, viewing (or ordering) the information which will hopefully give me another ship to repeat the process! I appreciate that this list is not for 'normal' genealogy but I was wondering (hoping!) if any mariner's records would have 'extra' info - such as next of kin, address, place of birth etc - similar to military service personnel records. all the best,Anne