Dear Paul, Thank you for your kind response. The 1807 Commission for Robert Beaver was the privateer's son. The privateers the father commanded were Juno, twenty four guns, and Hero twenty eight guns. The Juno was in 1778 and the Hero was 1781. Regards, Colin using the spelling as above, but a search for a Robert Beaver produced the following hits for an officer in the Militia for what is, ISTR, the adjacent county of Caernarfon : Commiffion signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Carnarvon, [aka Caernarfon].Loyal Newborough Corp of Volunteers. Robert Beaver, Esq; to be Captain, vice R. Currie, resigned. Dated September 17, 1807. Commissions in the Carnarvonshire Local Militia, Robert Beaver, Esq; to be Captain. signed by the Lord Lieutenant. Dated October 24, 1808. The town and county of Caernarfon being just across the water from Anglesey ? Whether these announcements were for the same guy, or for different people I don't know, nor whether they apply to your relative! Such commissions were normally only awarded to men of some standing in the community, which your message suggests was the case here. This, of course, was during the time of the Napoleonic Wars when the Militias were used as a form of Home Guard and armed force that could be sent to other counties, and particularly across the sea to Ireland, where, for religious reasons, there were assumed to be sympathies for the French, and also the fact that on more than one occasion the French landed troops on the West Coast of the Island, without much success. I should perhaps advise that if you can discover the name(s) of any of the privateers that Robert Beaver commanded or was involved with, brief details of the action and any prize money paid to the officers and crew of the vessels would normally be announced in the Gazette, much as for RN vessels. I should also perhaps add that the Gazette appears to have been indexed using OCR, so pages with a poor quality of print, taking into account when the Gazette was printed, may not produce good results and may sometimes omit important information. Regards Paul On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:49:29 -0600, "Colin Harrison" <[email protected]> wrote: >Robert Beaver, born 1748, Aberfram, Anglesea, Wales was a successful >privateer. The fortune he made subsequently made a comfortable impact on >future generations of my family. Please, can anyone tell me the >story/history of his captures. Your kindness in doing so would be most >sincerely appreciated. > > Warm regards to all the members of this great list, > > Colin Harrison --- in southwest Utah > >------------------------------- >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 50° 33' N, 2° 26' W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html ------------------------------- 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