THOMAS HARRIS & FRANCES LUCKHURST - 2 marriages identical names same month

[mckha489]

Where do you get the information that Thomas HARRIS was a Thames waterman?

Debra 

[susiee]

About 20  yr ago   the HARRIS hunters group   
 had  Thomas Harris -WATERMAN _  born about 1747  Gravesend   died abt 1788 married to Frances Luckhursrt

His Father
 Thomas HARRIS  -The Elder - Fisherman
1705 -about 1787
His Will 1787  included daughter Mary married to james Clark  and 4  the boats named   also included Thomas HARRIS   " Waterman  "

I have been trying to   find a good bio  of the Reg George  Harris  or his Brother  that describe  the occ of their Father

Rev William HARRIS obit in Congregational  magazine  describes the names correctly   but no occupation  of their father 

[mckha489]

OK, so related to this thread

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=887474.msg7606854#msg7606854

[susiee]

Yes correct

[susiee]

I am hopefully going to be able to load an image
It    is     just  the first para of  the WILL   i am trying to read

  Will   written in 1781 
Probate date     Dec 31 ----1788
THOMAs HARRIS 
I Thomas Harris  , Mariner   on board ......Ship  .......... Bournemouth ??
.....................



He  mentions  Frances as living in London  in 1781 when the Will was written  and in 1788  at Probate she had already re married   a   JOHN  JOHNSON

But i would like to   know the name of  the Ship he was on. 


I am thought initially   the Ship he names   is the   BOURNMOUTH   but i am not sure  i am reading the first para correctly  . So hopefully  this will load it  just may not

I have tried to load this   quite small   image  a number of times even chopped it into  a tiny file i have constant problems trying to load onto here not sure why
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Would some one please  see if you can find it  and read the first para   i will try and load it again
No   i t just wont load im sorry

[mckha489]

It is H. M. Ship Monmouth. Capt. James Alms esq, Cmdr

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D408280


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Monmouth_(1772)

[susiee]

 
I have 2 THOMAS  HARRIS --- THAMES  WATERMEN
 I am trying to work out if these  2 Watermen are the same person or not .

The Record Set is
The Company of Watermen & Lightermen  of the River Thames  Binding records --By R,J  Cottrell

4289 Thomas   Harris  --05 /04  /1728 /  Barnes       -    Thomas   HARRIS
4295 Thomas HARRIS  -- 25/10/ 1728 /  St Olaves   -     Hugh Nightingale 

Is it possible they are the same ?
If not i suspect the top one  is Thomas and his Father --but unproven  really