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The Common Room / Merchant Seaman records 1840s - help with information in document
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Dear Rootschat,
I am looking at a merchant seaman record for William Thomas Bastian, which was made in 1844 for the commencement of the new ticket issue system that began in 1845.
There are details for some voyages for the years, but I have no idea what all the references mean. Can anyone please help?
In 1851 he was in the Dreadnought Hospital in Greenwich and is stated to have last been on the Midlothian, which was presumably that year, but there is nothing in the 1851 column. I believe this was a transportation ship, so is this on another register?
He was last seen in the 1871 census as a mariner but is dead by 1881 and no idea what happened to him. I think he may have died on a voyage, but not found later mariner records for him yet.
Thank you any help you may be able to give me.
Jon
I am looking at a merchant seaman record for William Thomas Bastian, which was made in 1844 for the commencement of the new ticket issue system that began in 1845.
There are details for some voyages for the years, but I have no idea what all the references mean. Can anyone please help?
In 1851 he was in the Dreadnought Hospital in Greenwich and is stated to have last been on the Midlothian, which was presumably that year, but there is nothing in the 1851 column. I believe this was a transportation ship, so is this on another register?
He was last seen in the 1871 census as a mariner but is dead by 1881 and no idea what happened to him. I think he may have died on a voyage, but not found later mariner records for him yet.
Thank you any help you may be able to give me.
Jon