Hi Velcro...
Still no luck finding Daniel but here's an update anyway :-)
Lots of words so feel free to just browse.
The bottom line is there's still nothing definite.
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Minnie came across some possible candidates on a Crew Lists CD at Auckland Library.
Anders HENDRIKSON - born c.1858 in Finland - crewman Nov 1879 to Jan 1880 on the
BerteauxAndrew HENDRIKSON - born c.1857 in Finland - crewman Oct 1890 on the
RecoveryDaniel HENDRIKSON - born c.1857 in Drammen, Norway - crewman Dec 1881 to Jan 1882 on the
SemanthaHere are printouts of the info Minnie found on the CD...
Anders HENDRIKSON
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0sxq/Andrew HENDRIKSON
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0sxr/Daniel HENDRIKSON
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0sxs/It's possible Anders and Andrew are the same person. Would be even better if he was Daniel's older brother.
I asked on the European board for some help tracing the Daniel born in Drammen but there was no sign of him. Possibly Drammen was not his birthplace. Or possibly it was deliberate mis-information.
For the moment I'm turning a blind eye to the spelling of HENDRIKSON.
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If you want to pursue Minnie's info any further you're talking
serious money. Basically A$40 an hour. Fortunately you can get an estimate before you commit to anything. The people doing the research are archivists at the Maritime History Archives in Newfoundland, Canada.
Maritime History Archive
Research Services
http://www.mun.ca/mha/research/rgships.phpThe way it works is that the ship aboard which a sailor previously served is mentioned on the crew list.
Theoretically an archivist can trace the career of a seafarer backwards step by step through a series of crew lists. Hopefully along the way there will be a mention of a specific birthplace, which you can then use to find the sailor's birth record (although it didn't seem to work in the above Drammen, Norway example).
As I read it, most crew signed on for six-monthly periods. Finding two consecutive six-monthly crewlists seems to equal one hour of research. So to trace five years would be five hours of research....$200....ouch.
But like I said, the archivists give estimates before doing anything.
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Here's an example using two consecutive crewlists for an Andrew HENDRICKSON born c.1846/7
Andrew HENDRICKSON (third from bottom of page)
Born 1846 in Aa?
Crewman on the
OlympusPrevious ship the
HengistCrewlist of the
Olympushttp://www.rootschat.com/links/0syb/and then moving backwards to his previous ship...
Andrew HENDRICKSON (no.16)
Born 1847 in Aalsund, Norway
Crewman on the
HengistPrevious ship the
LoandaCrewlist of the
Hengisthttp://www.rootschat.com/links/0syc/In theory I should now be able to go to the 1846-47 birth registers for Aalsund (nowadays Ålesund) in Norway and find the birth register entry for this Andrew... (and yes I did try and no I didn't find it :-)
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Like I said earlier it's very expensive to trace further any of the sailor's found by Minnie. But if you were going to I'd suggest either Anders or Andrew. But remember there's no proof that either of them are the brother of your Daniel. There's just as good a chance that they are simply namesakes.
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