Thank you. Benjamin seems to be a family name Elizabeth, it appears in several generations after the Samuel I'm seeking. I've searched Ancestry, Findmypast and Family Search and although there are a number of Bortis references the bpt of my Samuel is nowhere to be seen. I have the Will you mention, but that only served to confirm that I had identified Benjamin's descendants correctly. The search continues! John On 14/03/2014 10:28 PM, 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 >