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drummo

drummo Report 29 Apr 2014 21:29

Hi everyone Is there any where that has records of mariners around 1800
My gggggrandfather was born in Scotland around 1788, he married in Whitby in 1813.The only thing I know is that he was a mariner (seaman) I have all information from the time of his marriage in 1813 relating to his descendants to present time but I can not go any further back as there were many James Drummonds born in Scotland around 1788 so I was wondering if mariners records were kept at that time which may help to narrow down my search

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Dummond (Scotland & England) Eden (Yorkshire & Durham)

safc

safc Report 29 Apr 2014 21:48

????

James Drummond, "United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941"
Name: James Drummond
Event Type: Military Service
Event Year Range: 1845-1854
Event Place: United Kingdom
Birthplace: Stirlingshire
Birth Year: 1789
GS Film number: 1482503
Digital Folder Number: 004584957

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Abby says please do not send messages to safc, always reply on your thread, as Abby is just a paying member of genes reunited. helping other members. thank you.

drummo

drummo Report 29 Apr 2014 21:52

That is possible I know he did not retire from sea until between 1851 and 1861 when he was living in Sunderland.

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Dummond (Scotland & England) Eden (Yorkshire & Durham)

drummo

drummo Report 29 Apr 2014 22:29

Unfortunately a James Drummond of that birth pops up on the early census still in Stirlingshire and not Sunderland where his wife and children now live while he is probably at sea till he turns up in 1861

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Dummond (Scotland & England) Eden (Yorkshire & Durham)

Gee

Gee Report 30 Apr 2014 09:24

Hi

A tree at Ancestry has this as his birth



Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950

Name:James Drummond

Gender:Male

Baptism Date:30 Jan 1788

Baptism Place:Portmoak,Kinross,Scotland

Father:
James Drummond

Mother:
Mary Whytt

FHL Film Number:1040205

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drummo

drummo Report 30 Apr 2014 18:38

HI Gins the tree you have looked at could be mine.There are a few trees with the same information but having contacted the various tree owners no one can definitely say the James Drummond who married in Whitby is the James Drummond from Kinross. His age matches but so do a number of others, all we have is he was from Scotland around 1788. Sometimes guessing can be so wrong.

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Dummond (Scotland & England) Eden (Yorkshire & Durham)