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Whaling from Dundee? Middle 1700's?
« on: Wednesday 24 August 11 08:49 BST (UK) »
My 6 x g grandfather, Angus PETRIE died or was buried between 1736 and 1766 on Yell in the Shetland Islands.

As he was a married man with children living in Panbride ANGUS, I wondered what on earth he was doing up there..... bit too far for a few fish? ..... shipwrecked mariner?

There are no longer burial records for that period in Yell, Shetland so time for a bit of lateral thinking. Maybe he was mentioned in the Panbride burial records?

Can anyone tell me a bit about the Dundee area whaling industry about the end of the middle of the 1700's?

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UK - Northumberland, County Durham: ANDERSON,   DODD(S), EDWARDS, ELLIOTT/ELLET, FENWICK, GREY/GRAY, HINDMARCH and variants, JORDAN, MOORE, MURRAY, RIPPON, RODDHAM, RYDER-TURNER, SPARK(E)(S), STEWART, TILLEY, TIPLADY, WATSON,
Sheffield: TURNER
Middlesex: RYDER
<br />Aberdeenshire: EDWARDS, BRODIE<br />Angus STEWART, DIXON, PETRIE

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Re: Whaling from Dundee? Middle 1700's?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 28 August 11 09:08 BST (UK) »



This article online:-
http://www.tayroots.com/HistoryofAngusandDundee/IndustrialHeritage/Whaling.asp

Also this book (which is around £50 new!) but here is much less secondhand:-
http://www.brechinbooks.co.uk/view_book.php?isbn=9781862322073
MacKintosh, MacIntosh, McIntosh, MacLean, Campbell, Clunas, Winchester, McLennan, McVittie, Fairlee, Queen, Oliver, Longstaff, Broderick, Hardy, Jones, Dart, Hext

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Re: Whaling from Dundee? Middle 1700's?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 28 August 11 15:51 BST (UK) »
There's a Shetland site called Bayanne which might help, or the Shetland Heritage Centre. The islands were the last port of call to make up a crew for the whaling."North Sea Chinamen!"
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Re: Whaling from Dundee? Middle 1700's?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 28 August 11 15:56 BST (UK) »
P.S. The Shetlink website might be worth a try!    Skoosh

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Re: Whaling from Dundee? Middle 1700's?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 29 August 11 13:09 BST (UK) »
Thanks Skoosh for info, I'll try them all


Gen in NBL England
UK - Northumberland, County Durham: ANDERSON,   DODD(S), EDWARDS, ELLIOTT/ELLET, FENWICK, GREY/GRAY, HINDMARCH and variants, JORDAN, MOORE, MURRAY, RIPPON, RODDHAM, RYDER-TURNER, SPARK(E)(S), STEWART, TILLEY, TIPLADY, WATSON,
Sheffield: TURNER
Middlesex: RYDER
<br />Aberdeenshire: EDWARDS, BRODIE<br />Angus STEWART, DIXON, PETRIE
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