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

[jds1949]

BY,

thanks again for the prompt response - I shall do some more digging. Local papers at that date often picked up items from other provincial papers if they had spare space - I suspect the same item or similar had appeared in a Liverpool paper a day or two before - I just haven't found it yet.

As for your recognising the Swarbrick name - I research all Swarbrick families - so if you are still on contact with one and they have an interest in family history point them in my direction.

Thanks,

jds1949

[Jueb1962]

Hi, I'm trying to trace my 2xgtgrandfather - Jean Baptiste Laroche and wondered if there was any record on him as a Liverpool Pilot.

He is a Pilot on his marriage certificate to my 2xgtgrandmother on 30th June 1852 St Michael's Church, Liverpool.  His residence at time of Marriage says Corlett Street (of Quebec Canada).  My 2xgtgrandmother is a widow when she remarries in 1855. His father is Jean Laroche, also a Pilot.

Many thanks

Julie

[BY]

Very sorry, Julie,

No known record of the name Laroche in the Pilot Service at Liverpool.

Quebec seems the more likely option - No doubt you will have tried there?

Good hunting,

BY

[ShaunJ]

Jean Baptiste Laroche is number 37 on this list of Quebec pilots - presumably the 48 after his name is his age in 1851:

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0032760

[Jueb1962]

Shaun..thank you so much for taking the time. Great to see...I think that must be his father who was also a Pilot (Jean Laroche) as Jean Baptiste was only 20 at that time.  I think the Baptiste Laroche name in Canada is as common as Jones over here - my maiden name. My ancestors didn't make it easy for me!!! Many thanks, Julie.

[GailB]

Hi

I'm looking for any details on Pilot Thomas LESTER who I believe has previously been mentioned on this site but no details given. Also for a possible relative of his Thorley LESTER.

Thomas married Mary RUSHTON in 1787 at St Peter, Liverpool and his occupation was shown as Pilot. The baptisms for all of his children also show his occupation as pilot.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards
Gail

[BY]

Hi, Gail,

Records show :-

                                         Born             Licensed               Retired              Died
Thomas Lester                                        1784                                             1813 at sea
Thorley Lester (i)                                    1809                    1858
Thorley Lester (ii)               1815             1834                    1861
Thorley Lester (iii)              1837             1861                    1898                  1900

A splendid family record!

Am fairly sure that you will be able to discover more from either John Tebay's "List of Pilots" or
else from the Pilots' Character Book held at Merseyside Maritime Museum, from which Tebay's List was compiled.

Good hunting!

BY

[GailB]

Many thanks BY that's fantastic and such a fast response :-)

I live in Australia so a visit to the MMM is out of the question but you have cleared up one puzzle with the date of death for Thomas.

Thanks again
Gail

[GailB]

I should have added that Thorley Lester (i) was born in 1790 and died in 1858 and that Thorley Lester (ii) died in 1869.

Regards
Gail