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Which port in 1615?
« on: Saturday 17 February 18 16:15 GMT (UK) »
Thought this first overseas port was Malaga but found a second entry in a different hand which doesn't look like it at all.
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Re: Which port in 1615?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 17 February 18 20:03 GMT (UK) »
I can see it's the same vessel and the same master, but are you certain it's the same voyage? The port names look very different.

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Re: Which port in 1615?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 17 February 18 20:33 GMT (UK) »
Yes, it's the same date!
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Re: Which port in 1615?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 17 February 18 21:08 GMT (UK) »
Could it be Malta?
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.


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Re: Which port in 1615?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 17 February 18 21:33 GMT (UK) »
Middelburg, Netherlands?
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Re: Which port in 1615?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 17 February 18 21:52 GMT (UK) »
Different entries by the same two clerks - not sure this helps!

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Re: Which port in 1615?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 17 February 18 21:57 GMT (UK) »
But here is the ship in December 1614 definitely going to Malaga.
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Re: Which port in 1615?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 17 February 18 22:03 GMT (UK) »
Middelburg, Netherlands?
That looks like a good idea. According to your extract Malaga3 above, it surely begins Middl...