« Reply #19 on: Saturday 20 February 10 14:17 GMT (UK) »
I was wondering how on earth a mariner met a girl from Pocklington which is halfway between York and the Port of Hull on the River Humber. I had a look on genuki for a list of traders/professions in Pocklington to see if Windas name was mentioned but it wasn't, but it did give the information that it was an easy to get to Hull where my guess is she met the mariner:
Conveyance by Water,
* From Pocklington Canal Head,
* To Hull, Vessels, every ten days
* To Leeds & Wakefield, Vessels every three or four days, Mark Swann, agent, Lock house
I see on an Arundel history site that there were quite a few rich merchants in that place and one of the trades in the timespan was dealing in timber amongst other things. Hull at that time was doing a roaring trade building fishing trawlers, etc and needed timber, etc.
So my tuppennyworth is:- if there's no evidence that Windass was a merchant and actually (part)owned a ship; then he was engaged by a rich merchant in Arundel to captain one of his ships. Quite often a few rich men got together and bought shares in ships, maybe that's why no specific employer's name is mentioned.
I'm following a line where the rich branch has left a lot of documentation and it's an eye opener seeing how many connections with various places their merchant business took them. Their houses would be in one town and their office in another town and they'd have a few shares in other businesses which were in other towns.
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