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 James COBHAM CG: searching for earlier mariner records
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| Shamrock |
Posted on 29/12/2009 21:06
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A few years back, Tony (thank you, Tony!) found the birth records of the children of my James COBHAM. The problem is I have never been able to find his birthplace and parents. I do have most of his CG records but no prior mariner records. ADM 175/77 Folio 81 Register of Nominations 1827-1832 Number: 2714 Date of Order of Nomination: 5/7/1831 Date of Leter of Nomination: 23/5/1831 Name: James Cobham Nominated for: Boatman Nominated from: Sligo Sent for First Examination: Sligo Station appointed to: Paignton In whose vacancy: W. Bungard Date of Report of 1st Exam: 9/7/1831 Date of Report of Qualification: 19/7/1831 He was transferred to Brixham, Devon, England (where he married + 1 child); then to Broadstairs, Isle of Thanet, Kent (8 children)and then was transferred back to Ireland - Belfast, Dartmouth, Ramsgate- on and on. He immigrated to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada by 1865. CG records for an Alexander COBHAM (James had named one of his sons Alexander) were also found (CG on 1841 Scotland; 1851 England): mariner records show he was born c1798, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim. I have a lot of his records. The only tie-in is that there was an Alexander COBHAM who lived in Carrickfergus during the 1780s-1790s. There was also a Rev. James COBHAM (during early 1700s) - for over 50 years - nearby in Ballycarry who appears to have had a son also named James COBHAM (perhaps a generation before my James COBHAM). So.. I am back to square one - where James COBHAM signed on in Sligo, Ire in 1831 & all records show he was born in Ireland. Why Sligo?? I am searching for those earlier mariner records - looking for suggestions. |
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