Church near Portsmouth Naval Base

[Andcarred]

Thanks to all the knowledgeable people on this forum I have now found the baptisms of the children I was looking for.

My next query is one of the boys (George Sydney) was, on the 1851 census, a pupil at the Royal Navy School at Deptford.  He was aged 13 years.   As his father died this same year in Scotland I am assuming the school was for boarders.   Would they have kept him on after his father's death?  There would have been no money to pay school fees.  Also I think George became a doctor like his late father.   Would the naval school give medical training or would he have had to go somewhere else.

Carol

[John915]

Good evening,

The Royal Naval School (Deptford) was a charitable institution set up in Camberwell. It was for the education of the children of Naval and Marine officers.

His place there had probably been arranged long before his fathers death. He would have gone on most likely to become a midshipman and perhaps attended one of the naval colleges.

John915

[jennifer c]

Looks like he could have been boarded out after his mother died?

1841 census Charles Street Greenwich

George Inches 4 not born in the county
With a family Joseph and Ann Unthank and family
Joseph was a Shipwright , both him and his wife were from Durham.

Jennifer

[jennifer c]

Son Charles James born 1833 looks to be boarded in Scotland 1841 can not find 1851

by 1861 he is on Royal Navy vessel Insolent on Canton River aged 28 married 1st. assistant engineer

He seems to have married Emma Cockshott and gives his occ as RN engineer father RN physician .

Died aged 80 in 1913 Rochford district Essex, he was living in westcliff on sea.

Jennifer

[Andcarred]

Thank you John and Jennifer for that information.   I cannot find George on the 1861 census and I cannot find when he arrived in Australia.  I am assuming he was therefore in Australia by 1861 otherwise would have been on the English census.   

Carol
Brisbane Qld Australia

[rosie99]

Son Charles James born 1833 looks to be boarded in Scotland 1841 can not find 1851

by 1861 he is on Royal Navy vessel Insolent on Canton River aged 28 married 1st. assistant engineer

I think this could be him in 1851 living Portsea
HO107 / 1657 f42 p30
James Wearne age 34   occ Patten Maker bn Falmouth, Cornwall
Jane   Wearne age 31 bn Cardiff, Wales   
Charles Inches   Lodger Unmarried age 17, occ Apprentice Engineer bn Portsea, Hampshire