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Fifer
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Hi Everyone
have Just found out that an Ancestor was born at sea about 1815 does anyone have any idea how i can find out information on him is there any websites on line that may help.
Fifer 
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Barclay,baxter,Cook,Cowie,Dryburgh,Hughes,Morris,Murray,Simpson,Westwater from Fife Scotland.
Hatton,Roscoe,Smith,Ellison,Hardy,Harding,Holmes,Randles, Fishwick from Wirral Cheshire,
Barnett,Hempsall,Humphrey,Ward,Wrench from Lincolnshire
Hartshorne,Wilson,Brass,Dodds,Hunter from Durham
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Welsh Jen
Dyfal donc a dyr yr garreg!
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This information may be of help to you:
If you register for free you can do a search via: http://www.nationalarchivist.com/index.cfm (birth death and marriages at sea)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/familyhistory/gallery1/britons.htm
Quoted from above link "Since an Act passed in 1854 masters of British ships have had to compile official log books of births, marriages and deaths of passengers at sea, which up to 1874 were sent to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen in Cardiff. Later, their reports of births and deaths on board ship were periodically passed on to the Registrars General of England and Wales, of Scotland and of Ireland as appropriate. The registers of entries up to about 1890 extracted from these logs are in series BT 158, BT 159 and BT 160. These are mostly indexed.
From 1852 until 1890 there was a separate log recording deaths of seamen, the registered entries being in series BT 153, indexed in BT 154 by personal name, and in BT 155 by ship. In 1891 the logs merged, births and deaths of crew and passengers up to 1964 being recorded in BT 334. These registers are indexed to 1960. There is a single volume relating to marriages from 1854 to 1972".
I am sure that I read somewhere (recent family history magazine publication) that some people born at sea were registered sometimes relating to the nearest place (at sea) where the ship was located.
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« Last Edit: Thursday 14 October 04 21:39 BST (UK) by Welsh Jen »
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Fifer
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Thankyou
to both of you for your quick reply i will check them out.
Thanks again
Fifer
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Barclay,baxter,Cook,Cowie,Dryburgh,Hughes,Morris,Murray,Simpson,Westwater from Fife Scotland.
Hatton,Roscoe,Smith,Ellison,Hardy,Harding,Holmes,Randles, Fishwick from Wirral Cheshire,
Barnett,Hempsall,Humphrey,Ward,Wrench from Lincolnshire
Hartshorne,Wilson,Brass,Dodds,Hunter from Durham
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minime
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Not a problem, my dear lady, especially after all the help you've given me. 
Minime
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Birchall, Cooper, Kearns, Hope, Desmarias
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