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MarieC
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That's a mystery, Jean! I can only wonder if the occupation was misheard or mistranscribed - sailor for tailor!
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MarieC
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Very strange! Your theory may be right, but you also said that a relative stated that this man was a Master Mariner. That occupation just doesn't seem to go together with Tailor! I have a ggrandfather who was a master mariner - his background was that he was from a family of watermen, and he started as an apprentice mast and block maker and worked himself up!
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Sylviaann
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On all official documents, marriage,birth of children, death, my ancestor is listed as a Mariner. On the censuses however he is a labourer in a soap works, labourer, wharf labourer, coffee house keeper.
I do not know where the mariner came from unless he was one before he married.
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukNorfolk: Gooch, Loveday, Lake, Betts Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner Hampshire: Laws, Burrows Kent: Beer Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston |
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behindthefrogs
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Try searching the masters on the following site with your ancestor's name. You might get a match.
http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/masters.php
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Living in Berkshire. Origin Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES CAN BE FOUND IN SURNAME INTERESTS AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Williams, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Jean McGurn
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Think I may have sussed it out. Maybe a lit white lie was given.
When g.grandfather who was the Tailor died in 1892 his widow eventually married a Mariner in 1903, whose father had been a Master Mariner.
Now although gran was sent to Ripley in 1895 and left in 1899, maybe her mother was living with the mariner and used his info for sending gran away to school.
It's only suppostion unless of course Ripley Hospital relaxed their rules for taking fatherless children from Liverpool.
David thanks for the link, may prove useful for other mariners I have. Didn't have g.grans 2nd husband's father on it though.
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Forthefamily
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If he was a master mariner he may be in the Lloyd's index. I can't post the site address because they have restrictions but if you google this.....Indexes to Lloyd's Captains Registers you'll find the link to the site....at the bottom of the site page they have an alphabetical index and your captain may be there.
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MarieC
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Pleased to see that you have a possible outcome, Jean! 
Mab, thanks for the reference to Lloyd's registers. I'll have a look there too, for my captain.
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