Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Hamilton David

Pages: [1]
1
Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: Thorpe
« on: Monday 03 July 23 10:06 BST (UK)  »
In about 1830 William Henry Thorpe (1815-18) came to Liverpool as a seaman and in 1837 married a Mary Ann Nichols. On their wedding certificate his father was named as Philo Thorpe, (1770-1824) occupation Attorney. William’s mother’s name was Jane who married Philo at the Canadian port St John, New Brunswick in 1815. Jane Thorpe’s (1784-1848) maiden name is unknown, and nothing is known about her parents or ancestors. The only other member of the family was their younger daughter Abagail (1825-?) who showed up on the 1851 Census living with her brother William and his family in Liverpool. It is Jane who is the likely candidate for my and our Native American ethnicity because all the other ancestral lines can be traced back to the early British settlers in Colonial America between 1620-1650. If Jane was of Native American descent from New Brunswick/Nova Scotia she may have been from the Micmac nation tribe of that region. So, although I have failed to find my Native American, I have discovered a whole tribe of English settlers, our American ancestors.
William Thorpe became master of the newly built Liverpool floating landing stage.
By 1857 he had been promoted to Master of the landing stage and in that year, he was appointed Master of the Liverpool Princes Landing Stage. He later crossed the River to Birkenhead where he took on the less demanding job as Master of the Woodside Ferry Landing Stage. William preferred to be known and addressed by his second name Henry.

William ‘Henry’ Thorpe Master of The Liverpool Landing Stage.

In 1857 The Liverpool Mercury reported the appointments for the newly constructed Prince’s Parade Landing Stage. This was built as a massive floating platform on the waterfront to facilitate the birthing of Ocean Liners. The paper reported that the Liverpool Dock Committee had appointed a Henry Thorpe age 43 as Master of the Landing Stage at a salary of £120.00 per annuum. This was a promotion after Henry’s 12 years of service as master of the small landing stage.
The paper seems to have mis reported his age and used his preferred second name Henry instead of his first name, ‘William’..

The floating platform of the landing stage may have been classed as a ship. The appointment of Master followed by First and Second Mate would indicate this. Therefore, William’s later career as a ‘Master Mariner’ from the age of thirty may have meant he spent most of his seafaring in Liverpool without spending much time at sea. Hope that's of interest.

2
Hi
I've been referred to this dialogue with regard to Nicholas Froud's will.

Nicholas was my wife's ancestor, she was brought up at Wickham and for some time we lived at Welford often taking walks through the churchyard not knowing about the ancestral links. She thought her Froud family came from Swindon.

However the document you have been discussing and transcribed is probably probably the document I am interested in, as I now understand he did not have a will.

So thanks

David

3
Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: Chaddleworth - marriage William Froud(e)
« on: Tuesday 19 December 17 09:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Alan, Thanks for speedy response to my post and thanks for the baptism dates for Nicholas.
Thanks also for forwarding it to Orsa who has contacted me this morning. I was puzzled about not being able to send her a PM, but now I know.
As you've probably gathered, this is my first post on the site and I'm totally unfamiliar with the protocols.
So could you  send me a response so I can reply again. Thanks

4
Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: Chaddleworth - marriage William Froud(e)
« on: Monday 18 December 17 21:15 GMT (UK)  »
Hi my wife is a descendant of Nicholas Froud (c1640-1675) I see that you have the Will of Nicholas.
I have recently returned to researching the Frouds and have discovered Nicholas. We live not too far  from the Froud homelands at Fawley and Chaddleworth and to my surprise this week discovered that Nicholas was buried at Welford. We lived in a cottage at Welford park in the late 70's and the graveyard backed onto our garden. I would take my infant son on searches for peacock feathers in the graveyard deposited by peacocks of Welford Park which roosted in the yew tree, little realising that we were probably stepping on the grave of my wife's ancestor.
I would be very interested in the contents of Nicholas' Will and hope you would be generous and send me a copy as a PM.

Thanks David

Pages: [1]