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Pilot captain
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Kevin | Report | 12 Nov 2007 19:16 |
Trying to find 'Pilot Captain' Mountain of Boston Lincolnshire. His Granddaughter was Dinah Ann Chilvers, who married Elijah Smith in Boston. |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 12 Nov 2007 19:28 |
What sort of period are we talking about? |
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Kevin | Report | 13 Nov 2007 22:57 |
We are talking of around 1790 to 1820ish |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 14 Nov 2007 02:07 |
Have you checked out the lists in the IGI? |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 14 Nov 2007 02:25 |
Hmm -- is this Dinah in 1861? |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 14 Nov 2007 03:49 |
Yup -- there was a first wife. Here's the household in 1841: |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 15 Nov 2007 02:35 |
So Kevin -- was any of that of any use? |
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Kevin | Report | 19 Nov 2007 22:26 |
Complicated isn't it. Thanks for your help. I have discovered that. Robert Chilvers was born in Ipswich and was a wheelwright who was lodging in Boston. He married Sarah Anne Mountain in 1850. Her afther was Robert Mountain who was a pilot (on the tug boats that guided ships into Boston Docks), as was his father before him. It appears that he remarried and Dinah Anne could be his second wife. The marriage was witnessed by her father and Margaret Mountain, who may have been her sister from Robert's first marriage. i will definitely investigate the Anne Epton marriage to see if this will shed any more light on the subject. Once again many thanks for the time and effort you have taken in helping me in this search. |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 19 Nov 2007 23:03 |
You're welcome, and sorry about getting myself so confused in the middle there. All came out right in the end, though! |
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