Just remembered that the 19th C Unitarian Old Meeting House on Howard Street/Gaol Street ( now Yarmouth Way) was bombed out in the war along with some of the Rows, There is a new Meeting House on the site . Hope this does not affect your search for records. http://www.ukunitarians.org.uk/greatyarmouth/history.htm Rosie On 14/03/2014 23:26, Our Mail wrote: > Thanks Rosie - I'll bear that in mind if I can't find what I want with a > closer spelling. > John > > On 14/03/2014 11:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> This seems to be an uncommon name in the area but bear in mind the more >> common Boggis perhaps when you are looking. >> Rosie >> On 14/03/2014 11:28, elizabeth howard wrote: >>> Hi, Ancestry has a baptism of a Benjamin Bortis son of >>> Mr Benjamin Bortis , mariner, and Elizabeth his wife baptised Sept 26th >>> about a week old. This is an entry in the Yarmouth , Gaol St, Old Meeting >>> , Presbyterian , 1706-1820 register. And there is a Benjamin Bortis listed >>> in the 1734 Norfolk Poll book for Yarmouth. The National Archives has a >>> will for Samuel dated 1807 of Longbenton Colliery , mariner. However unless >>> the surname is spelled very differently , there seems to be no other record >>> of the family. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Our Mail" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 4:08 AM >>> Subject: [NFK] BORTIS family of Yarmouth >>> >>> >>>> I am looking for information on the Bortis family. Samuel Bortis >>>> married Ann Cowley by licence in Tynemouth, Northumberland on 13 Dec >>>> 1744. On the marriage bond Samuel was described as being 22 years old >>>> and a mariner from Yarmouth Norfolk. I have searched the Archdeacon's >>>> transcripts on-line but found no trace of Samuel, or any other Bortis. >>>> Does anyone have knowledge of the family? >>>> >>>> John, in NSW >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------- > 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

Thanks Rosie. There are some records on Ancestry - I think Presbyterian ones. John On 15/03/2014 6:26 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Just remembered that the 19th C Unitarian Old Meeting House on Howard > Street/Gaol Street ( now Yarmouth Way) was bombed out in the war along > with some of the Rows, There is a new Meeting House on the site . Hope > this does not affect your search for records. > http://www.ukunitarians.org.uk/greatyarmouth/history.htm > Rosie > On 14/03/2014 23:26, Our Mail wrote: >> Thanks Rosie - I'll bear that in mind if I can't find what I want with a >> closer spelling. >> John >> >> On 14/03/2014 11:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> This seems to be an uncommon name in the area but bear in mind the more >>> common Boggis perhaps when you are looking. >>> Rosie >>> On 14/03/2014 11:28, elizabeth howard wrote: >>>> Hi, Ancestry has a baptism of a Benjamin Bortis son of >>>> Mr Benjamin Bortis , mariner, and Elizabeth his wife baptised Sept 26th >>>> about a week old. This is an entry in the Yarmouth , Gaol St, Old Meeting >>>> , Presbyterian , 1706-1820 register. And there is a Benjamin Bortis listed >>>> in the 1734 Norfolk Poll book for Yarmouth. The National Archives has a >>>> will for Samuel dated 1807 of Longbenton Colliery , mariner. However unless >>>> the surname is spelled very differently , there seems to be no other record >>>> of the family. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Our Mail" <[email protected]> >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 4:08 AM >>>> Subject: [NFK] BORTIS family of Yarmouth >>>> >>>> >>>>> I am looking for information on the Bortis family. Samuel Bortis >>>>> married Ann Cowley by licence in Tynemouth, Northumberland on 13 Dec >>>>> 1744. On the marriage bond Samuel was described as being 22 years old >>>>> and a mariner from Yarmouth Norfolk. I have searched the Archdeacon's >>>>> transcripts on-line but found no trace of Samuel, or any other Bortis. >>>>> Does anyone have knowledge of the family? >>>>> >>>>> John, in NSW >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 >