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Quote from: Spike Malet on Wednesday 01 October 14 16:32 BST (UK)

If he was working on a supply boat aged 40 I guess this does make it likely he served in the Navy before this.

I'm not entirely sure that assumption is well-founded. He might have been working in a clerical post elsewhere for the Admiralty, or for another institution, rather than on active sea-service? The required skills would be different.

My reasoning was that his actual job on the Storehouse Longboat was a bit more "hands on" than perhaps his letter to the Duke of Portland suggested. If the job of the Storehouse Longboatmen was to both transfer goods from the storehouse on shore to the boats and then also to unload incoming boats, he would have had to have done a lot of loading/unloading and sailing in addition to tallying up the Stock books. Is it more likely that he picked up sailing skills as a 40 yr old or as an 18 yr old? I would say the latter.

Land waitering is a natural extension of this, i.e. dealing with import/export taxes but without the physical side that working on a longboat would entail. If he was in his 40s perhaps he was picking up a few aches and pains and wanted a job that was a bit easier on his body!

Ok will do. Thanks.

Thanks Bookbox. Was he employed by the Navy or the East India Trading company though? They both had docks at Deptford and presumably have separate records?? The word "clerkline" sounds more civilian than military perhaps?

Thanks Ambly,

Hedge Court is a possibility. Was there a Dodge family there?

If not, I suspect it is Edge, Cheshire as the 2 Surrey Dods that were listed in the Visitations claimed to be from there.

I looked at the pedigree on the ourfamilyhistories link you found and it looks like someone was trying too hard to continue the pedigree for the Heath family back into time. I cannot see how they decided that the Miss Dod that married John Heath of Lingfield was the daughter of Roger Dod of Broxton & Anne Done of Utkinson, nor does there seem to be any reference. Can you figure out how they made this link?

The 1633 Visitation lists a single person as "of Hedg". Is there anywhere in Sussex that this could be?