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Hello,

I’m an Australian trying to find more information on a mariner. His name was James Ruse and he was captain on the Sterling making voyages back and forth from London to Quebec in 1815 & 1816. The Sterling was wrecked in the St Lawrence River in either November or December 1816. I have obtained my information from Lloyds Lists and Register (UK) and the Ships List. Are there any records I can search from the Quebec side of things. 1. For more information on the voyages in and out, details on the captain etc, and 2. More information on the wreck itself, outcome etc?

Hi all,

I am after advice for researching a merchant sailor please. My great x 4 granduncle was indentured as an apprentice mariner in New South Wales, Australia in 1801. The term of his apprenticeship was four years. We have traced him working out of Port Jackson (Sydney) up to the end of 1810. I have found newspaper records of him (or someone with the same name) first as the captain of the Violet docked at London Warf in 1815, then as the commander of the Sterling, pin pointing the week of him changing his employment. He carried out three voyages from London to Quebec, Canada, with the Sterling being wrecked in a blizzard at the end of 1816 at the start of the voyage back to London. I would like to know do records exist for London for merchant sailors in London during this period? If so where are they held and how do I access them? Also, what about records for this period for Quebec, Canada? I tried to look at the Quebec Archives website but I do not read French.. I am trying to confirm 100% that this is our man, not just a man with the same name. Any advice would be grately appreciated.

I am currently looking for clues and suggestions for finding the origins of my great x 4 grandmother Sarah Humphries.

• According to her death certificate she was born around 1776.

• Married Thomas Alder, son of Robert Alder and Mary Iddols, in Kings Stanley on 16 July 1792. Record states that Sarah was of the parish.

• Son Anthony Alder was baptised in Kings Stanley on 7 July, 1793.

• Husband Thomas Alder died and was buried in Kings Stanley on 25 July 1800.

• Married William Gabb on 22 June 1801.

• Son William Gabb baptised in Kings Stanley on 15 November, 1801.

• Sarah and son Anthony subject to settlement examination in 1804, presumably when the family moved in with her father in law in Stonehouse.

• Son John born around 1807 in Stonehouse. No baptism record exists but other documents comfirm that Sarah Humphries and William Gabb were John’s parents. John and his family were non-conformists so it is thought that no baptism record for him could be indicative that Sarah and William were part of the Stonehouse Congrational Church for a period.

• On 21 March, 1815, two year old Elizabeth Gabb was buried in Stonehouse. A corresponding baptism has not been found so possibly the daughter of William and Sarah, as per for John.

• If the family had been part of the Congregational Church, they returned to St Cyrs, CoE in Stonehouse in 1814. Daughter Mary was baptised there on the 20th of June.

• Son John married Hester Walkley in Kings Stanley on 15 October 1826.

• Son William, soldier of Stonehouse, warrant for being a putative father, “the father of child with which Mary Hopton is pregnant.” 23 October, 1827.

• Son William married his second cousin Sarah Adelaide Gabb (James) in Portsea, Hampshire on 27 October, 1827. William was a corporal attached to the HMS Ganges.

• Husband William Gabb passed away in Stonehouse and was buried on 3 September 1834.

• Son William immigrated to Canada, then USA sometime between 1828-1834.

• Son John and his family immigrated to Australia at the end of 1837.

• Daughter Mary married George Dangerfield in Stonehouse on 17 August 1838.

• 1841 Census: Sarah lived in Oldends Lane, Stonehouse with William & Mary Harris, and John Miles. Census states that Sarah was English.

• Died in Stonehouse on 6 April, 1849 “aged 73”, was buried at St Cyrs on the 10th.

The record for Sarah’s first marriage states that she was of the parish, however I cannot find a baptism in Kings Stanley for her. I cannot find a baptism for her in the villages adjoining Kings Stanley either. I have looked at the DNA but nothing obvious is standing out.

Hello,

I am hoping someone can please look at an original record on film for me. Our local LDS site doesn’t seem to be open at the moment. I am trying to determine if there is a transcription or interpretation error in the data uploaded for the record to the familysearch.org website. My ancestor John Hogan, an Irish soldier is often recorded as Joannes/Joannis being the Latin form of John. There is a baptism record for Thomas Hogan on 19 Jan 1831 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland to parents “James” Hogan and Ann Devlin. Other than father’s first name, this fits Thomas as per later census records. Thomas was the only one of my great great grandmother’s siblings born in Newcastle, and there are no other births/baptisms for children of “James Hogan and Ann Devlin”. I am theorising that “James” might be a misinterpretation or misread of “Joannis”.
Note: there are no other records potentially linking mother’s maiden name.

Record information:
Microfilm number: 1936956
Image number: 62

A family reunion is planned for the direct descendants of James Ruse  on Sunday 28 October 2018 at historic Old Government House Parramatta.  We are trying to muster direct descendants from his marriage to Susannah Northcott in Cornwall, and to Elizabeth Perry in Australia.