« Reply #12 on: Friday 11 October 24 19:59 BST (UK) »
Thanks - I guessed that might be the case. Mariners are pretty thin on the ground in the landlocked Staffordshire Moorlands, so my gut feeling would be that he'd was more likely have been a soldier, which I'd guess would might make him even less likely to be able to trace!
RATCLIFFE, BARLOW, BERESFORD, BLOOR, BYATT, DAKIN, KENT, LEES, MORTON, NORCLIFFE, OAKS, OSBORNE, PARKS, RICHARDSON, ROBINSON, SORTON, WETTON, WARRINGTON, WATTS, WOOD, WOLVERSCROFT (all from the Staffordshire Moorlands) - and specific interest in anyone who at any time lived in or around the village of ALTON