Offer:Look-up Liverpool (Mersey) Pilots 1734/1990

[Kirkdale1]

Thanks Shaun, appreciated.

Blimey, 3 Thorley Lesters !! Must have been a popular name once.

Cheers

Bob

[ShaunJ]

3 Thorley Lesters !! Must have been a popular name once.

I suspect they were related. There's also a Thomas Lester and a W Lester, both licensed in 1784

[Laura Stepney]

Gordon
Many thanks.  Your comments are very helpful and I'll try to get to the MMM to see what they have on him at some point in the future.
You have put another piece of the jigsaw into my family history as he is my gg grandfather.
Edward

Thank you very much for this information as well.  Samuel Howson Jones is my ggg grandfather.  It's very exciting to be able to put together another piece of the puzzle.

Laura

[ainslie]

On the Liverpool Town Hall WW1 roll of honour there is an entry for the following:
WRIGHT, 1ST CL.PILOT, P.

I would like to clarify this entry and think he may have been a Mersey Pilot, as all the names should have a Liverpool connection.  Nothing is shown in the column for ship/unit.

Any suggestions, please?
Ainslie


Added - I have solved this - he was NOT a Mersey Pilot but an aviator.

[genebof]

I am looking into my "Morgan" family history.  Many of my Morgan ancestors were Coastguards or had sea related careers.  Nicholas Morgan (think he is my great uncle) was a Master Pilot in the Liverpool Mersey Pilots.  Nicholas was born between 1862 and 1864 in Killowen. Co Down and is recorded as an apprentice pilot in the 1881 UK census.  Just wondering if your records shed anymore light?

[ShaunJ]

Morgan, N:

Born 1862
Licensed 1884
Retired 1921
Died 1931

[genebof]

Morgan, N:

Born 1862
Licensed 1884
Retired 1921
Died 1931

Many thanks

[ShaunJ]

Just a reminder to researchers that there is a lot of information on individual pilots to be found in the Liverpool Maritime Archives & Library http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/sheet/65

[David Perchard]

Hi Gail,
I am related to these people, and would like to exchange information.
Kind regards,
David