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master mariner help

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Amanda

Amanda Report 8 Mar 2005 18:57

Thank you for all the tips , now i have some leads to try

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 8 Mar 2005 18:19

This is a useful mariner research links site: http://www.angelfire.*com/de/BobSanders/Site.html and this: http://www.theshipslist.*com/ (remove *) Christine

Helen

Helen Report 8 Mar 2005 18:16

This link to the National Maritime Museum tells you how to research master mariners. I hope it gets through! http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.569

Zoe

Zoe Report 8 Mar 2005 16:46

They used to be held at the National Archives at Kew so I'd start there. If you go onto their webstite they probably have research guides for mariners Zoe

Zoe

Zoe Report 8 Mar 2005 16:08

Andrea You'd need to look up his seamans ticket from which you coould trace all his ships. So far all my mariners have been pre1837 (before they had tickets) so I dont know a huge amount about it other than they had to have one to work on board. Zoe

Amanda

Amanda Report 8 Mar 2005 15:49

My ggreatgrandfather was a master mariner he lived in Liverpool his name was Samuel Scott Arthur i cant find him on any census, he was proberly at sea, is there any way i could find out what ship he was on?