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

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 >