STORM AND COMPANY
ARCHIVE QUESTIONS
1. How is Anne Brown b. 1799 related to Thomas Skerry 1781-1867? Anne writes a letter on April 25th 1866 from London to her son in which she refers to "Uncle Skerry in his 86th year", and who has a son, James, a fishmonger in Scarborough. Thomas Skerry b1781 is the most likely candidate for being "Uncle Skerry". Anne may be related to him through his wife, Mary Robinson.b1788 and whom he married in 1805, but we cannot trace it.
2.We have a William Brown Smurthwaite who was born either in Whitby or Hartlepool about 1815; the son of William and Mary who were married in South Shields 1807. He married an Ann Charlton in Hartlepool in 1836. Wm B Smurthwaite is in a Hartlepool register in 1853, and a ship owning register in 1860 (Port Cities). In 1860 he is believed to have been lost in his ship, Defiant/Defiance, off Staithes. More factual information would be welcome.
3. Does anyone know more about the Captain John Hudson who married Ann Spink b1776 Easington (the daughter of John Spink 1731-1799 and Elizabeth Storm 1741-1795). STORM AND COMPANY has him as a master mariner trading in the Baltic whereas family legend claims he was a sailor on HMS Bellerophon at the Battle of the Glorious 1st of June, 1794?
4. Does anyone know more about a ship's bell
with the inscription "Valentia 1898" or about the ship,
ship's crew etc.
28.12.08 Thanks to Bob Sanders and Paul Grainger we know the
Valentia was 3242 tons and built for Christopher Marwood in 1898.
It became a wartime loss in 1917.
Answers by e-mail, please,
Roy
storm04ATglobalnet.co.uk
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