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Offline Will Stevenson

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Help with mysterious Mariner ancestor needed please
« on: Wednesday 03 May 17 18:44 BST (UK) »
My 3X Great Grandfather, Edward Gibson was born in Darlington in 1811. He became an apprentice mariner at a young age and then moved up to Seaman, then Mate and finally Master. I have been able to find little on him apart from a couple of Masters and Mates certificates. I cannot find him on any census returns at all. His wife, Jane (nee Metcalf) is always on her own with the children. The family lived in Hartlepool for quite a while. Jane also dissapears into thin air after 1861. I cannot find either of their deaths or census returns after that. I have been on the search for them through over 30 years of genealogical research. Can anyone help ?????

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Re: Help with mysterious Mariner ancestor needed please
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 18:57 BST (UK) »
If Edward was at sea when the census was taken, he wouldn't be on it.

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Re: Help with mysterious Mariner ancestor needed please
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 19:40 BST (UK) »
There are details of your man's sea service, 1845-1851 Ticket number 169430, on Find my Past.
If you need help interpreting the numbers, just shout.
Dim ateb yn well nag ateb anghywir. Nid oes dim yn ddall fel rhai nad ydynt yn dymuno gweld

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Re: Help with mysterious Mariner ancestor needed please
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 22:39 BST (UK) »
Was Jane born Sunderland c1812? 

Children Jane 18 - Elizabeth 16 - Mary 13 - Thomas 8 in 1861?
Hinchliffe - Huddersfield Wiltshire
Burroughs - Arlingham Glos
Pick - Frocester Glos

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Re: Help with mysterious Mariner ancestor needed please
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 03 May 17 23:00 BST (UK) »
Yes, that is her

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Re: Help with mysterious Mariner ancestor needed please
« Reply #5 on: Friday 05 May 17 14:14 BST (UK) »
Do you have any marriage info. for the children...may help "if" cert.states he was deceased at the time
of their marriage.

Jackie
Dudley Worcs:Ellis Durkin Oakley Rich Smith
Baggot Saunders Turner Williams Hobbs
Harts Hill: Baggot Wright

Tipton:Whitehouse (boatman) Timmins
Yorkshire:Littlewood Wilcockson
Derbyshire:Wilcockson

Derby Belper:Spencer
Herefordshire Brampton Bryan:-Turner

Worcs. Hereford. Gloucs.
Hodgetts




Radnorshire: Meredith
Bristol Somerset: Box

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