[BITList] Fwd: HULL Sound List

[John Feltham]

Mike,

Did you know that rootsweb had a mariners List?


ooroo





Begin forwarded message:

From: Lynda Hirst <lynda.hirst at gmail.com>
Date: 20 July 2010 8:04:46 PM AEST
To: eng-yks-hull at rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: HULL Sound List
Reply-To: eng-yks-hull at rootsweb.com

Heya Peter -- this sounds just like the sort of question the good folks on 
the mariners mail list would be able to assist you with -- have you tried 
posting this to that list?

mariners-request at rootsweb.com

cheers
Lynda
NZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Holford" <peterholford at btinternet.com>
To: <eng-yks-hull at rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:43 PM
Subject: HULL Sound List


> Hi
> 
> I contacted the group a few months ago trying to find more information
> about my gg-grandfather James Wood who was a very early steamship
> captain in Hull and who is buried in the south transept of Holy
> Trinity.  I have made progress and found that he captained the Monarch
> which was one of the steam packets between Hull and Hamburg from 1835 to
> 1839.
> 
> I am now trying to track him backwards.  I have discovered there was
> more than one Captain Wood and am trying to ascribe ships to each of
> them using 19th century copies of the Hull Packet newspaper.  There is a
> section in each newspaper called 'Shipping Intelligence' which lists
> ships and their captains and when they arrive at or depart from Hull and
> the port they are leaving for or arrived from.  My problem is there a
> section called 'Sound List'.  But why is it a separate section and what
> is its significance?  I feel that the Sound List does not include steam
> ships and would enable me to eliminate the occasional Captain Wood who
> appears in them.
> 
> I have tried to get info about this from the museums service and the
> Hull History Centre.  The former couldn't help and the latter failed to
> reply!  I would be grateful for any help on this one!
> 
> Peter Holford
> 
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