Meg I am not sure about the place the wages were paid at, perhaps someone on Mariners list would know. Was it the place the ship ended its voyage, or was it the nearest port to where the family lived? Orkney born mariners certainly moved about, two of my Orkney-born mariner ancestors moved to live with their families in South Shields, Co. Durham ( not far from Sunderland) As for the actual records, I quote from Watts & Watts book -"My ancestor was a merchant seaman" - "The Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act 1851 required masters of British ships to hand on to a shipping master at the end of all voages the wages & effects , or their proceeds, of any seaman who died during the voyage. Registers of these wages & effects were maintained by RGSS. "The Register of Wages & Effects of Deceased seamen", BT 153, records details of the deaths of seamen, 1852 -April 1881, and May 1888 - 1889 In them is recorded: Name and register ticket no of deceased seamen ( the ones I looked at, for 1850s, did not appear to give the ticket no) Date of engagement place, date & cause of man's death name & port of registry of his ship master's name date & place of payment of his wages amount of wages & date of receipt by Board of Trade from 1866 they also record the seaman's age, his rating, the ship's official no with a note of its voyages" So to answer your question, the family got the wages that were owing, together with his effects ( if they had not been lost) Judith Edmonds > Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:05:41 -0500 > From: scotquester@bartnet.net > To: orkney@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ORKNEY] Dearness mariners lost at sea > > Judith - a valuable bit of information for someone no doubt ! Google > searches reveal Jutland [the site of one shipwreck, wages being paid in > in Sunderland] is part of Denmark and Limehouse [where wages were paid > off in the Sydney shipwreck] is a borough on the north bank of the > Thames near the center of London's footprint. > > Am not familiar with "Wages paid off at..."...does that mean the > deceased seaman's family could collect the wages due him at the time he > died ? Did someone have to actually travel to Limehouse or Sunderland > to collect ? Would someone from Orkney actually have traveled as far as > the northeastern tip of England to collect 2 Pounds Sterling, 18 > Shillings or was the deceased's widow or child be more likely living in > the Sunderland area ? Too many questions for a short answer maybe, but > I'm new to understanding the dynamics of shipwrecks, now seeing its more > than solely the horrendous loss of the men aboard. Meg Greenwood / > Oklahoma USA > ========================= > > > > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Make a mini you on Windows Live Messenger! http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/107571437/direct/01/