Merchant Navy Apprentice Indenture records

[cristeen]

Hopefully I have attached an image of Wilton Glover's Merchant Navy apprenticeship indenture record. He is the second name down, apprenticed to Thomas Scurr of The Lady Gordon on 20th March 1847 aged 14. There is some reddish writing above his name which I think says Deserted at Quebec, unsure of the next few marks and the numbers 6.10.47 which I'm assuming is the date of desertion.
I know The Lady Gordon sailed to Quebec on several occasions, hence my interpretation of that word.
What does everyone else think?
Also, if an apprentice deserted, could he take on another apprenticeship a few years later?

[goldie61]

I'd  go with 'Quebec'.
I remember my father used to write his 'Q's that way.

[Treetotal]

That's what I see too.
Carol

[Skoosh]

Agree, I wrote my Q's at school the same way.

Skoosh.

[geneaccount]

I agree with Quebec.

Also, I had a deserter from a ship in Sydney, Australia. It ended up in the New South Wales Police Gazette with a good description of him - "...light hair, blue eyes, very short, fat, and lazy". With the number of desertions in the Gazette I often wondered how many were genuine deserters and how many were taken (shanghaied?) by other ships to fill their own crews.

[Westoe]

Yes, it is definitely Quebec.

As an aside, Captain Scurr had also been her master in Nov. 1840, almost seven years earlier, when the LADY GORDON rescued my GG-Aunt's husband and crew from their waterlogged and unmanageable timber ship in the North Atlantic.

Cheers,
Westoe

[cristeen]

Thank you all. I,m trying to piece together Wilton's story with very little to go on

[Girl Guide]

Where do you think Wilton came from?  Did he stay in Canada or did he make his way back to England?

There is a baptism for a Wilton Glover on 7 October 1832 at Maryport, Cumberland - parents James and Mary.

Does this sound like your Wilton or a different one?

[josey]

The entry 2 down from Wilton's has 'deserted Elizabeth 8 2 49' then the same letters before '30 6 49'. I wonder if they refer to a date of re-capture/return to ship? The entries above & below his also have the letters and a date like Wilton's. ? looks like Isd? The bottom entry has something like 'Id 12 4 51 marked now Mate xxxx No 499954'.

Do you have any records for Wilton after 1847?

Josey