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Finding merchant seamen on census data

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Rambling

Rambling Report 8 Aug 2019 17:52

Well I'm glad I looked at Hartlepool ships! Up popped a news article on the death of a relative :-)

Researching:

Rambling

Rambling Report 8 Aug 2019 18:38

Julia check out the "Shipping and Mercantile Gazette - London, " in newspaper
archives

Researching:

Chris Ho :)

Chris Ho :) Report 8 Aug 2019 18:46

1881 Census taken 2nd April...

Chris :)

01 April 1881 - Shields Daily Gazette - South Shields, Durham, England

Blythville (s), Simmons, of Hartlepool, arrived at Baltimore on Wednesday.


11 July 1881 - Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Middlesbrough, Yorkshire

Shipping
West Hartlepool.
Zealous, Powell left Constantinople for Sulina on Sunday


16 November 1886 - Northern Echo - Darlington, Durham, England

Shipping.
Middlesbrough. Arrivals & Sailings - Local Ports.
W. Hartlepool.
Acaster, Spink, from Dieppe.


https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11711915

http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/vesselsalpha?shipsearch=blythville&SearchType=Exact&submit=search

http://www.teesbuiltships.co.uk/view.php?a1PageSize=&a1Order=Sorter_name&a1Dir=DESC&a1Page=2&ref=165890&vessel=ZEALOUS

http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/vesselsalpha?shipsearch=acaster&SearchType=Exact&submit=search


08 June 1855 - Lincolnshire Chronicle - Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

Marriage
At Boston, on the 3rd inst., Clark Thomas Haylock mariner, of Church-street, to Hephzibah Clark, of Boston West.


Edits (also on Deaths at Sea image (FMP) Place of Death, Dieppe Hospital. In Port. Taken to Hospital 5/11/86)


Cemetery Registers Hartlepool 1907 Hephzibah Haylock abt 1835 Studley Road

https://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/NewSearch.php

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 8 Aug 2019 18:52

"Blythville" certainly got around.

Baltimore in April 1881, as per Chris's post above, and from Spain to Pennsylvania in 1882:

https://www.immigrantships.net/v18/1800v18/blythville18820120.html

Wrecked 1908 off the west coast of Scotland:

https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?63480

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

Julie

Julie Report 8 Aug 2019 18:52

Chris Ho, many thanks for finding this, never imagined the comings and goings of ships would be reported in this kind of detail.

Rambling, thanks for pointing me to the Shipping & Merchantile Gazette, will have a poke around.

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