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Hi all . "Is anyone out there a maritime buff?". My 1st Cousin 5 x rem was a Francis Rouffignac b 1828 Mousehole . According to a few of my records I see that Francis was the Captain of the SS Mersaric ship 1911 . I would like to know more about this ship etc if possible please . Thank you all .
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Have you mis-typed something? This would make him a ship’s captain at age 83.
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His Master's certificate can be found on Ancestry: All UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927
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Guidance to be found here, assuming the ship was British registered:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/registration-merchant-ships/
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FreeBMD has a possible birth?
March qtr 1868
Penzance Registration District vol 5c, page 322
Rouffignac, Francis
Marriage December qtr 1892
Penzance Registration District vol 5c, page 432
Rouffignac, Francis
+ and one of these brides +
Harvey Phillis Tregurtha
Peake Jessie Lucinda
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It seems that the ship was ‘Mersario’ and it was a different Rouffignac?
30 June 1910: Cornishman
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There is a Francis Rouffignac, mariner, in Liverpool in 1861 age 33 [1828] and born in Mousehole.
1871 he is back in Cornwall, a fisherman.
1881 same, now 53
1882 Q1 Penzance, death age 54
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FreeBMD has a possible birth?
March qtr 1868
Penzance Registration District vol 5c, page 322
Rouffignac, Francis
Marriage December qtr 1892
Penzance Registration District vol 5c, page 432
Rouffignac, Francis
+ and one of these brides +
Harvey Phillis Tregurtha
Peake Jessie Lucinda
He married Jessie Lucinda and they were in Newlyn at the time of the 1911 census. He was a carpenter and wheelwright.
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If it is Mersario rather than Mersaric, here is the launch of such a ship in 1889
31 May 1889: Lloyd's List
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Western Times, 18 Jun 1917
What's in a name!!
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Foot of col 4
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014248/1894-12-07/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1756&index=1&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Mersario&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=mersario&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
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Coumn 4 - closest i can get to 1911
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045830/1909-09-14/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1756&index=0&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Mersario&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=mersario&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
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If it is "Mersario" pop it in Search for 200 "hits" - 1 as early as 1873, the rest 1889-1908.
https://newspapers.library.wales/
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According to a few of my records I see that Francis was the Captain of the SS Mersaric ship 1911 .
Exactly what is the source of this information?
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https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10134598
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According to a few of my records I see that Francis was the Captain of the SS Mersaric ship 1911 .
Exactly what is the source of this information?
Newlyn Archive.
https://www.newlynarchive.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Family.pdf
(scroll down for Rouffignan)
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Newlyn Archive.
https://www.newlynarchive.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Family.pdf
(scroll down for Rouffignan)
Ah, I see...
Letter addressed to Capt de Rouffignac, commander SS Mersaric, dated 18/10/1911 from The Texas Company giving character reference.
It doesn't say that it was captain Francis Rouffignac :-\
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Newlyn Archive.
https://www.newlynarchive.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Family.pdf
(scroll down for Rouffignan)
Ah, I see...
Letter addressed to Capt de Rouffignac, commander SS Mersaric, dated 18/10/1911 from The Texas Company giving character reference.
It doesn't say that it was captain Francis Rouffignac :-\
and see reply#5
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It seems that the ship was ‘Mersario’ and it was a different Rouffignac?
The master of the Mersario was Ambrose Charles de Rouffignac born 1870
https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=211
See the inset at the bottom of the page which identifies him as master of the Mersario.
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thanks Jen for the update and research here . Yes! I have Ambrose in my Family tree . Someone on Ancestry has mixed up the Rouffignac Men and there occupations in the hints section! confusing . Regards .
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thanks Jen for the update and research here .
A lot of people have contributed :)
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Sorry i meant to thank ALL the contributors here . I have learnt so much from there posts and will update my F History files with this info .
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Hi all . "Is anyone out there a maritime buff?". My 1st Cousin 5 x rem was a Francis Rouffignac b 1828 Mousehole . According to a few of my records I see that Francis was the Captain of the SS Mersaric ship 1911 . I would like to know more about this ship etc if possible please . Thank you all .
It seems that the ship was ‘Mersario’ and it was a different Rouffignac?
The master of the Mersario was Ambrose Charles de Rouffignac born 1870
https://www.penwithlocalhistorygroup.co.uk/on-this-day/?id=211
See the inset at the bottom of the page which identifies him as master of the Mersario.
A snippet view ...
Mersario
A.C. de Rouffignac
Lloyd's Register 1911 - 1912
https://archive.org/details/HECROS1912ST
It has got the builders and other details, and the columns are titled.
Added:
You should be able to save the whole page if you enlarge the page, then left click or press on the image (sometimes near the page edge on some of these scans) and download, copy, or save just the page only.
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By early July 1912 (date derived from newspaper reports) he was on the Holmwood
https://archive.org/details/1913-st-combined/page/n1257/mode/2up
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Rouffignac
Proceedings of the Huguenot Society
This stranger buried 13 Oct., 1791 ...
"aged 63 but this 'stranger' was first cousin to Field Marshal, Lord Amherst, the Commander-in-Chief of the English Army, then living. Elizabeth Rouffignac, his widow, was buried at Paul Parish, Mousehole, Cornwall, on 13th May, 1812, aged 72 years."
https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofhug5141hugu
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Mark, may I suggest you take a look at tornado’s many posts about the Rouffignac family, you might find that you are looking at areas that have already been covered.