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Dumpling

Dumpling Report 4 Sep 2007 15:03

Its great to look at the service history of your ancestors ,unless you are like me and are useless at getting them!!! With help I got grandads naval service history then found ( with help from other GR members) that g g grandad was also in the navy so tried to get his documents also.... and failed miserably. Only had his name etc from census returns, do I need his service number?

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 4 Sep 2007 15:10

No you don't need his service number to order the documents but of course there is the possibility they are not there!

This link takes you straight to the search page for seaman's records...Or have you already tried it?

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=15&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1

Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

Dumpling

Dumpling Report 4 Sep 2007 15:15

Hi Chris, Yes I did try but then I did the same thing for his grandson and could not get the record until I had his service number, ( provided through the people here), problem is I do not know how to get that myself !

Dumpling

Dumpling Report 4 Sep 2007 15:16

PS, the period is 1830 ish

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 4 Sep 2007 15:23

Right that answers it...

Online documents only cover 1873 to 1923.
You would need a manual search at Kew.

Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 4 Sep 2007 15:28

Have a look at the section 'Military History' on the main NA site...

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Gives a guide to whats available.
Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

Dumpling

Dumpling Report 4 Sep 2007 15:34

Thanks Chris, as I get older my attention span is getting shorter, I start to look at the research guides but something else takes my attention and I go off at a tangent, the last time it was the trefalgar lists!!!

Joan

Joan Report 4 Sep 2007 16:13

His name , birth year and place of birth may find them....give us the info and we can look..
Joan

Dumpling

Dumpling Report 4 Sep 2007 17:04

Hi Joan, Is this the same Joan who helped give me the adm reference a couple days ago? From what Chris has said it looks as though the service period is to early for on line doc's but what about paper copies are they possible ? He is George Hardy born Stoke Damerel 21st May 1818

Joan

Joan Report 5 Sep 2007 09:17

Hi
This looks like him?

Admiralty: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Coastguard and related services: Officers' and Ratings' Service Records (Series II) ADM 29/60/539
Original page number: 539 George HARDY; Rating; Age on entry: [Not Given]; Dates served: 11 June 1859-1 November 1861; Date and Type of Application: Whitehall 8 July 1859 and other. For the additional following details Born: 21 May 1818, Devonport, Devon,
Date: 1858.

Getting paper copies is really easy..you need to pay online though....and not expensive...come by post...I've got a lot of my ancestors papers that way
Good luck
Joan

Joan

Joan Report 5 Sep 2007 09:23

PS. Devonport is part of Stoke Damerel
Joan