Thank you for both your messages Pauline. Food for thought, and avenues to explore. I'll be in the UK later this year, and with luck I might be able to go the RO in Norwich. John On 15/03/2014 2:50 AM, Pauline & Arthur Kennedy wrote: > If you check under the spelling Bortice at either Ancestry or > FamilySearch then it appears Benjamin and Elizabeth also had a son > Samuel baptised at the same place in 1724. It's a bit later than the > licence might suggest but still a possibilty? > > Pauline > > 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 >