In response to the query below, some of these records are now available on Ancestry. Kind regards Margaret In Oxford ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:22:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Trish Michael <gosford17@yahoo.com.au> Subject: [YORKSGEN] Is anyone going to Kew soon? Probably not Yorkshire connected. To: YORKSGEN@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1348957352.73951.YahooMailClassic@web162206.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Morning all.? I am trying to help a friend with her research and we've come across a brick wall fairly early on in her research.? One of her relatives was a merchant seaman, not at home on 2? census nights and died in 1860.? The couple married in 1831 so marriage details porbably won't help. One of the records I am hoping might shed some light on his POB and DOB are the merchant's seamen records held at Kew.? If anyone is going there in the near future I would certainly appreciate a look up.? I have the relevant catalogue numbers. Many tia's. ttfn Trish ex Hull lass on central coast of NSW