Dear Betty,
Regarding your master mariner ancestor, "Gwynwedd Roots" may be able to
help. Look through your back copies and there is - in the last 3 years? - a
mention of someone researching Welsh-born seamen in the archives of the
Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Is it a Dr Davies?? I don't
know. I have made use of his research for an ancestor of mine and the
records kept ?at Greenwich? are useful for us. You will have some details
of date and place of death and other useful stuff.
If you can't find the reference, I can dig it out. Same goes for anyone
else with master mariner/captain/mate ancestors all of whom whom held
certificates and are therefore recorded. Unfortunately, general seamen
weren't included in these lists.
Yours,
Ian
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