Dunno if this has come up before, it appeared on the Beeb today.
Those interested in genealogy can check to see if any of their forebears served under Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors/
How didactic is that?
Ancestors at Trafalgar
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Ancestors at Trafalgar
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John Gillespie aged 20 born in County Antrim, Ireland.
Ship: HMS Leviathan
Rank/Rating: Ordinary Seaman
Well, there you go. Thing is, the emigrant I know for sure I'm descended from was Thomas Gillespie who left Scotland just before the American Revolution. Cannot vouch for this John fellow. Maybe his dad was one of the family's early ITM afficionado offshoots.
Ship: HMS Leviathan
Rank/Rating: Ordinary Seaman
Well, there you go. Thing is, the emigrant I know for sure I'm descended from was Thomas Gillespie who left Scotland just before the American Revolution. Cannot vouch for this John fellow. Maybe his dad was one of the family's early ITM afficionado offshoots.
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20 men born in India (which I guess makes them Indian?)amar wrote:ain't no indians or swiss there, eh?
2 from Switzerland:
Andrew Sack, 35 Geneva, Switzerland, Yeoman of the Sheets
Hans Yaule 22 Switzerland Landsman
If you do an 'advanced search' and use *india* and *switzerland* as the search terms, the results pop up.
Oh, and there were 78 Kellys there, and interestingly some of 'em were from Cork, as was my great grandfather.
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No Milners, but a couple of Lathams and plently of Woods, my maternal and paternal grandmothers.
My Maternal Grandfather was an Olivier, descended from a Frenchman who came to England around this time. Might have had a few relatives on the French side!
My Maternal Grandfather was an Olivier, descended from a Frenchman who came to England around this time. Might have had a few relatives on the French side!
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing
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It occurs to me I didn't post the source Beeb page, so here it be:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4110478.stm
Here's a snippet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4110478.stm
Here's a snippet:
The Beeb wrote:Any women here?
The information has been gathered from ships' muster books and paylists, certificates of Navy service and hospital applications made by men who later applied to become in-pensioners at Greenwich Hospital.
Records show the youngest recruit as "third class boy" Thomas Wilcott, eight, on the HMS Neptune. The eldest, 68-year-old John Adams, was onboard the Royal Sovereign. Sir John Franklin, later the arctic explorer, also served.
The archive has just one woman of the fleet, a Jane Townshend, carrying out "useful services" onboard The Defiance.
"She may have been tending the wounded, cooking, washing clothes," says Pappalardo. [whose sentence seems to terminate with a slightly embarrassed smile of a comma! -GK]
"The muster books recorded no women, because officially they weren't supposed to be on board. But some masqueraded as men to go to sea with their husbands, boyfriends, lovers, or to escape mundane life.
"There were boys and men who gave their birth place as 'at sea', so women must have been there.
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
