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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: mrs.c. on Friday 22 October 21 17:59 BST (UK)
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Hi, does anybody have any idea how I can find out the employees of Captain Scott but not the people he took on the expedition.I am trying to find out who worked for him around the time of 1898-1910.
Thank you appreciate any info. Janet.
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In 1901 he was in the house of his mother, Hannah, and his sister, and they had two servants, Caroline Tyler and Rose Martin.
Bev
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In 1901 he was in the house of his mother, Hannah, and his sister, and they had two servants, Caroline Tyler and Rose Martin.
Bev
I had a look on FamilySearch for wife Kathleen and son Peter (b 1909) on the 1911 census but can't find them.
Philip
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There were three servants with his wife and son in the 1911 Census.
Tony
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1901 to 1904 he was in the Antarctic on the Discovery.
Before that he was in the Navy.
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There were three servants with his wife and son in the 1911 Census.
Tony
Which site did you find them on? Do you have details?
Philip
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1911 on Ancestry:
Kathleen Scott 31
Peter Markham Scott 1
Louisa Brand 42
Alice Coombes 44
Florence Satre 26
Tony
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Hi everybody thank you for your replies,I am looking for a person (great uncle) who went to Canada in 1899 after getting married in Wales, to work for Capt.Scott. name of Llewellyn Roberts.
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Hi everybody thank you for your replies,I am looking for a person (great uncle) who went to Canada in 1899 after getting married in Wales, to work for Capt.Scott. name of Llewellyn Roberts.
No mention of Canada on Wiki. for 1899
Promotion, and the extra income this would bring, now became a matter of considerable concern to Scott.[17] In the Royal Navy however, opportunities for career advancement were both limited and keenly sought after by ambitious officers. Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham, who was now knighted and President of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition with Discovery, under the auspices of the RGS. It was the opportunity for early command and a chance to distinguish himself, rather than any predilection for polar exploration which motivated Scott, according to Crane.[18] What passed between them on this occasion is not recorded, but a few days later, on 11 June, Scott appeared at the Markham residence and volunteered to lead the expedition.[3]
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"In 1887–8 Scott studied and qualified for his lieutenancy at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, with high honours, and was then appointed sub-lieutenant in the Spider. In 1889 he was posted to the Daphne and then to the Amphion for service on the Pacific station at Esquimalt, British Columbia."
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35994
Tony
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Canada was 10 years before Mrs C's relative went there.
1899 Scott was on HMS Majestic and then back in London.