Received: by 10.68.241.98 with SMTP id wh2mr712348pbc.7.1336516405839; Tue, 08 May 2012 15:33:25 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni3912pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Anne Chambers Newsgroups: alt.genealogy Subject: Re: Revisiting -- Ship's Crew, 1748 - Full Muster Roll Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 08:03:22 +0930 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <17ydnWswB-j3BzTSnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net 7UZT9d1xNPbN0Ia1SQgCUAFcv42HogtDfSlLZaYBURqys3oOAxN2vDKYpQ2dfwF0x7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:YCGNy7p/2tjlP+newgQVqE6Dkuo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429 Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1 In-Reply-To: <17ydnWswB-j3BzTSnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@earthlink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dexter Kenfield wrote: > I had indeed missed the fact that two of those listed in that column have the same surname as the crewman -- > Jenners on page 1 and Howells on page two -- so those could be father/son. Doesn't work for the rest, though. > > Dexter > To quote Rodgers again "These servants....were boys being bred up to the sea life, almost as apprentices to their masters...there were boys at sea of six or eight....officer's servants could come from almost any background...there were noblemen's sons among them....at a suitable age the young man would be allowed to walk the quarterdeck as a young gentleman... and even to mess with the lieutenants in the wardroom..." -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com