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Northumberland / Re: ship lost at sea
« on: Thursday 14 October 10 07:24 BST (UK) »
Hi Alan
Thank you for the information, I agree they dont look like a match. Ancestry.co.uk keeps throwing up a possible hint and it shows in 1881 a John Farrell in the Borough hospital in Birkenhead and he is born in the same year as my GGGrandfather the mariner but it shows his occupation as a ships rigger. It is possible he returned to Merseyside from Sunderland at some.
I am wondering if he was a mariner could he be a ships rigger? If so why would it show him as a master mariner on his sons marriage certificate?
I am not that good on marine history yet:(
Kind Regards
Bernadette
Thank you for the information, I agree they dont look like a match. Ancestry.co.uk keeps throwing up a possible hint and it shows in 1881 a John Farrell in the Borough hospital in Birkenhead and he is born in the same year as my GGGrandfather the mariner but it shows his occupation as a ships rigger. It is possible he returned to Merseyside from Sunderland at some.
I am wondering if he was a mariner could he be a ships rigger? If so why would it show him as a master mariner on his sons marriage certificate?
I am not that good on marine history yet:(
Kind Regards
Bernadette