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Hi

I have a Merchant Navy Ticket for what I think is the missing ancestor link in my family. Does anyone know if I can trace more about him and his parents etc from the ticket number?

The ticket tells me that he was 14 years old when he joined as a 'boy' and that he was from 'Gloster' but I need to now know who his parents were to progress any further

Any pointers would be welcome

Thanks

do you have a name ? any date on ticket ?

Yes

Thomas Brewer Born 1832 and issued 11th July 1846

spindrift wrote:Yes

Thomas Brewer Born 1832 and issued 11th July 1846

should be on the 1841 census any luck with that ?

poss mistranscribed definatly brewer

1841 Cold Ashton, Gloucestershire

William Brown 40
Mary Brown 35
Thomas Brown 10
Elizabeth Brown 10
Mary Brown 8
William Brown 5
Ann Brown 3




Name: Thomas Brown [Thomas Brewer]
Age: 10
Birth Year: abt 1831
Where born: Gloucestershire,
Civil Parish: Cold Ashton
Hundred: Puckle Church
County/Island: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Registration District: Chipping Sodbury

this could be him in 1881 as liverpool was a large port settled there need the marriage and the rest of the census


1881; 58 Hill St, Toxteth Park, liverpool

Thomas Brewer 49 Model Lodging House Manager Keeper, Glotshire, Gloucestershire, England
Mary Brewer 49 Down Co, Ireland
Thomas Brewer 15
Edith Brewer 14
Agustus Brewer 13
William Brewer 8
rest born liverpool
plus loads of lodgers

poss Marriages Jun 1864

Anderson William Liverpool 8b 141
Brewer Thomas Liverpool 8b 141
Duggan Mary Jane Agness Liverpool 8b 141
Honan Bridget Liverpool 8b 141

Hi Peterd

thanks for the information but the problem I have is that I know about the Liverpool links but am not able to find the Gloucestershire link. I know his father was called Thomas and was described as a stonemason on the 1864 marriage certificate of the 1832 Thomas. I cannot find any 1841, 51 or 61 mention of him except that I know he was a sailor from Gloucestershire so he must have been at sea in 1861 as his wife was stayng with a friend in Liverpool.

The issue I have is that I need to know if the ticket I have for Thomas jnr B 1832 is a way of finding out if his father was called Thomas and a stonemason etc. and where the family lived.

Hope I have given enough information but I have all I need in respect of the Brewer line except this piece of the jigsaw which puts me in Gloucestershire

Thanks

Hi Spindrift.
Stonemasons often travelled around as journeymen to where the work was. I have one on my hubbie's tree that was living and working all over the north of England.
Hope this helps a bit.
Margaret

Thanks Margarett

That could be useful but I am lloking also for a lucky break with my ancestors merchant navy ticket number

Cheers

Spindrift,

If memory serves from my days in the MOD Medal Office all Merchant navy packets are kept in the National Archives. His ticket number would be enough to identify him

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