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Page number: 206

No of certificate: 72153

Forename: Robert

Surname: Dambrill

Born at: St Johns

Year: 1806

County: Newfoundland

Certified as: Master

Certified at: Liverpool

Date: 10 February 1852

No of certificate : 72154

Forenames: John

Surnames: Dow

Born at: Lochgilead

Year: 1807

County: Argyle

certified as: Master

certified at: Greenock

Date: 16 February 1852

No of certificate: 72156

Forenames: Thomas

Surnames: Downes

Born at: Hull

Year: 1809

County: York

certified as: Master

certified at: Liverpool

Date: 21 February 1852

No of certificate: 72157

Forenames: Bloomfield

Surnames: Douglas

Born at: Aberystwith

Year: 1822

County: Cardigan

certified as: Master

Certified at: Southampton

date: 9 March 1852

No of certificate: 72158

Forenames: Alexander

Surnames: Drysdale

Born at: Dollar

Year: 1819

County: Stirling

certified as: Master

certified at: Liverpool

date: 15 March 1852

No of certificate: 72159

Forenames: Matthew

Surnames: Doran

Born at: Carlingford

Year: 1812

County: Louth

Certified as: Master

Certified at: Newry

Date: 19 March 1852

No of certificate: 72160

Forenames: James

Surname: Morley

Born at: Grantchester

Year: 1805

County: Cambridge

certified as: Master

certified at: London

Date: 28 November 1854

No of Certificate: 72161

Forename: Henry

Surname: Domaille

Born at: Guernsey

Year: 1808

County: Guernsey

Certified as: Master

certified at: Guernsey

date: 13 April 1852

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sek

72158 - I cannot find anywhere in Scotland with this name.

sek

Got it! There is a Dollar near Stirling

Scrumpy Geoff

Best I can do... "Dollar is a village nestling in a fold of the Ochil Hills on the northern bank of the River Devon, east of Stirling. "

Scrumpy Geoff

We clashed again!

sek

I was curious about 72160 as Grantchester isn't known for its seafaring folk. I couldn't find any trace of him on Ancestry or indeed of Morleys in Grantchester. Oh well, mustn't get distracted.

Scrumpy Geoff

Could he be the one who left the Navy in 1847? From Gosport?

sek

Looking at his history on the claim form I cannot see any Royal Navy. He went to see on a whaling ship from London aged 13. Maybe the family moved to London.

sek

Found him on his daughters' marriage certificates. He married a woman thirty years younger and was then left a widower with three young daughters.

Scrumpy Geoff

Well done for digging so deep. And he's definitely from Grantchester?

sek

On the census he says Trumpington. Next-door parish to Grantchester. Not known for its seafarers either. I have noticed that most of the mariners come from fairly coastal places, although there was one from Buckinghamshire.

Scrumpy Geoff

That's conclusive then. Amazing how you get know every fishing village in the land and can even spell some of the Welsh ones!

Scrumpy Geoff

Maybe the inland ones run away to sea but don't make it to skipper, that's left to the ones with fishing tradition.