Tag: Ship captain
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The Inkwell and the Captain
It’s a simple item, an inkwell that was given to me a few years ago by my great uncle. He said it was an inkwell that had belonged to his grandfather Richard Lee Norton and he used it on his voyages. Richard was a sailor/seaman born in 1819 in Great Yarmouth, England. His father before him…
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Finding Margaret
You know when you first started doing your family tree and it seems that every time you hit the library you found something new? Well, that’s what my memory of first starting out researching my family tree was like. It probably was a bit more onerous than that, but it’s the discoveries that suck you…
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