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Welsh Mariners/Sailors

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Victoria

Victoria Report 21 Apr 2009 21:47

Thought I would pass this fantastic website address on that a very kind lady called Tina past to me. It is great for researching for information on relative who were sailors/mariners etc, can give you quite a bit of information and if you look, there are links to other sites which are also very helpful and interesting.

http://www.welshmariners.org.uk/search.php

Hope someone else finds this as useful as I have - thanks Tina!

Vicki

FannyByGaslight

FannyByGaslight Report 21 Apr 2009 22:02

Thank you Victoria for this,it is really good.
viv

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PLEASE REPLY ON YOUR POST AND NOT BY PERSONAL MESSAGE unless it is of a "sensitve"matter...Thank you

tinaj

tinaj Report 21 Apr 2009 22:33

You are welcome Vicki - glad you found it useful!

On the subject of Mariners, there is another useful site - the Lloyds Captains Register. The documents are held at the Guildhall Library - not online, but the index is. I found it really useful for confirming that my ancestors actually were master mariners - they are always missing from the census so its hard to pin them down! Not all names have been completed, including those begining R, S, T - which I why I didn't mention it yesterday

http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capintro.htm

Tina x

Joy

Joy Report 21 Apr 2009 22:44

Another useful site for mariners / seamen -

http://rmhh.co.uk/mariners.html