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Offline AMC25

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How to find if someone was in the navy?
« on: Saturday 13 May 06 12:56 BST (UK) »
On a birth certificate that I have it lists the fathers occupation as Seaman. Does this mean that he was in the navy?  and if so how can I trace him as he does not appear on any of the census's and I only know his name from the birth cert.

I know there is an online navy records search but my man would've joined before 1873.
Carpenter - Hawkley, Hampshire
Hall - Hawkley, Hampshire
Hutchins - London
Cooper - Greenwich, London
Bence - Budleigh, Devon until 1880's then London
Whiting - Hornsea, Yorks
Hall - Hornsea, Yorks
Whiteman - Herefordshire, Oxfordshire
Holmes - Ryton, Co. Durham & Cumberland
Vincent - London
Rowe - Cornwall/Devon & then London

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Re: How to find if someone was in the navy?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 13 May 06 14:36 BST (UK) »
It could be Merchant Navy, as Royal Navy useally has RN .

The only census with Royal Naval ships on that I have come across is the 1861.

It lists all the ships and crews

Maureen
Stringer Shoreditch Belfast Liverpool
Bradshaw Belfast
Jones Holywell Flintshire
Hendren Ayrshire
Maurer  France Ayrshire
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