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Jan, Yes indeed there must have been sufficient official records to satisfy the grant of probate.

The Board of Trade automatically took over in the cases of losses at sea.

More work to be done.....

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. Margarita, I went back through an advanced search and found him by searching the name. As you say, very sad. My 2 x Gt grandfather was his brother, another mariner, based in Cardiff. So there was a grain of truth in the family myth after all. This would explain why there is no death certificate on...

. Margarita, I think that you may have stumbled upon it. I'm in the process of going through the Gale Digital Collection - just signed up as your mail came in - and working out how to search it. The reason why I think that it is right is that there is a family story of a collision at sea, sometime a...

. Many thanks for the replies so far – it’s much appreciated. To answer in turn: Maggie: Yes I do know his approximate age. He was born about 1837 (at least christened then) so he would have been about 60 years old when he died. Jan: Yes I do have the exact date of death from his will – 17 June 1837...

The name in question is Mark Hawkins. He was a merchant mariner from West Sussex, sailing from and living in Portsmouth. The only Mark Hawkins listed in BMD in the entire decade is one who died in Luton in Q 3 of 1897. He was a labourer and it's not him. There are no added names on that page. As I s...

. Bit new to this, but so far it’s fascinating. I'm researching an individual... (Actually, my 3x Gt Uncle) and I know the main life events up to his death, no problems there but I cannot find details of his death certificate. He was a mariner, but he didn’t jump into a kyak one night and do a bunk,...

..... yes you may be right..... the copy I have is poorer quality and it doesn't show up so wel.

So much for identifying a new enumerator's convention!..

Thanks Chris.

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Here's the location, Chris:

1851 census,
Geo Wake, born 1816.
HO107; Piece: 2396; Folio: 100; Page: 93;

He's the first on the page and in parentheses.


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. No, Tony. It's the only occasion of brackets being used on census names that I can see and the name is there in black and white, clearly in parentheses. In context, the individual is the head of the house and is a mariner. The rest of the family is listed in the normal way below his name. If he we...

Browsing through an entry on the 1851 census for Sunderland just now, I noticed that the enumerator has entered one individual's name in brackets. I've just transcribed the 1851 for an entire village in Sussex and I've not seen this before, there or anywhere else - is there any significance in this?...