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Family History Beginners Board / James BOSS (born c.1776)
« on: Wednesday 15 July 15 19:47 BST (UK) »
I would appreciate help in finding the baptism record and parents of James BOSS, who became a boatswain in the Royal Navy. His service record shows him joining up in 1798, aged 21, born in Lynn. He married Mary Philips Rickard in 1809 at Stoke Damerel, Devonport, and died there in 1857, aged 81. The 1841 & 1851 censuses show him living in Stoke Damerel, aged 60 & 73 respectively, and according to the 1851 census he was born in Lynn (King's Lynn), Norfolk. I've hit a brick wall with his birth.