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Topic: Whaling Ships out of Whitby - 18th Century (Read 3271 times)
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Keith Sherwood
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Ruth,
Pannet Park's next on my list of things to do...! Thanks again,
Keith
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mark24
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Francis NOSSITER was my gt gt grandfather, he was born in Whitby c 1830 son of Francis Nossiter of Beaminster in Dorset.
He married in Whitby St Margarets Parish Church, Isabella PECKITT, 18 March 1826
He died in Hartlepool co Durham in 1866
His daugther Esther was born 1839 in Whitby and married James BARNFATHER 06 Jun 1858 Wesleyan United Free Church, Hartlepool, my gt grand parents.
My grandmother, their Daughter Jemima Barnfather born 28 Jan 1866 Hartlepool.
How amazing on my first visit to RootsChat for some time to find Francis was a Boatsteerer on the Whaler 'Providene ' 1836
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Keith Sherwood
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Mark24,
Did you find that information on this thread, thanks to the amazing posts of Shipwright (Geoff)...?
Nice to see this thread burst into life again, well over two years since someone posted on here - doesn't time fly!
keith
N.B. Just had a look through the thread, but wasn't your ancestor's boat in 1836 The Phoenix. Very exciting for you, though...
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mark24
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Keith
Got a message from Rootschat today that the forum was re-opended and after entering BARNFATHER, some interesting items, then did NOSSITER, not expecting to find Francis so easily
Mark
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avm228
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I found some of my COATES ancestors on muster rolls for the whaling vessel Volunteer, which sailed out of Whitby, on this site:
http://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/Volunteer.html
There may be something on there of interest to others
Anna 
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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)
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Keith Sherwood
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Hi again, Everyone,
Nearly a year has elapsed since the last post on here, and I'm intending to go up to Whitby next week after I've taken in a couple of days racing at the York Ebor meeting.
Most important port of call (apart from Whitby itself of course...) will be the Museum. And the Church there sounds incredible inside.
Any other suggestion of items for my itinerary?
Can't wait...
Regards, keith
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Keith Sherwood
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Hi again, Geoff,
And thanks for the valuable inside info - will try to look as little like a tourist as possible, therefore!
Have just read Andrew White's: "A History of Whitby", republished in 2004 by Phillimore, and from that I get the idea that the place was practically landlocked because of the poor communications until the railway came in the 1840's, hence the insular attitude even today, perhaps.
Hardly anything at all in this book about the whaling (there's tons more on just this thread thanks to your huge input...), but I was quite taken by the large number of (amateur) carvings that exist in the wooden pews of the church. Sermons must have gone on too long.
Very interested to read that Mrs Gaskell, who stayed there at least once, used the details on the riot caused by a press gang in 1793 as a background for her not-so-well-known novel "Sylvia's Lovers".
1793 was the very year that my gt-gt-gt-gt-grandpa John KERSHAW married for the first time, to the widow Alice Mead. Hence the need to tread the ancestral footprints in the church at least...
keith
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Geoff,
We have the same kind of problem in Cambridge here, where on some sunny days the place is almost totally overrun with tourists. Always felt the same kind of sentiment whenever I've gone to York, too...
And if I hear the click of a safety catch come off, or the glint of a gun barrel when in the graveyard, I'll make a dive for the church porch.
Yes, I've had another look at those suggested book titles, and hope to find a second hand bookshop in Whitby where I might have a browse for a souvenir or two.
keith
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Geoff,
Beginning to get a flavour of the not-to-be-missed Whitby hospitality!
As long as I don't come out of either bookshop with a copy of "Watership Down", Beatrice Potter's complete works, or Uncle Remus's "Brer Rabbit", I'm fairly safe wandering around in that churchyard...
I'm still not sure when exactly I'll be appearing in Whitby next week, but I must say I'm thoroughly looking forward to it.
Regards, keith
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Hi again, Geoff,
Have just arrived back after a lovely time in your town, managing to escape without a peppering of buckshot in my backside...
Thought the church was astonishing, enjoyed the folk festival that was going on all around my ears, and even spent a happy couple of hours in the Museum in the Literary and Philosophical Society's search room, looking through the Muster lists for whaling ships out of Whitby between 1784 and 1788. Lots of surgeons mentioned but not my man, so perhaps the family folklore has been over-embellished.
I also travelled out to Stokesley to gaze at the outside of the White House, 5-7 West Green, which has a plaque outside that says John Wesley stayed there; it was almost certainly the house where John KERSHAW was born in 1766, shortly afterwards to be baptised by the great man.
I DID enjoy myself in your wonderful town, in spite of the place bulging with those tourists. Wouldn't have minded slipping that fossil and jet chessboard and set that is in the Museum under my coat and making off with it,
Very best wishes, keith
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