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- Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:45 pm
- Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
- Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
- Replies: 11
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Re: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
To clarify the previous point: my thinking was not that the young men were rebels, but that they might have feared being thought so on first being taken aboard.
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
- Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
- Replies: 11
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Re: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
Yes, you’re probably right. I had been thinking that in the era — when the French supported Irish attempts at rebellion against the British more than once, above all in the rebellion of 1798 — the press-ganged men might not have wanted to be immediately identified as Irish Catholics (especially if t...
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 1:48 pm
- Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
- Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13510
Re: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
That’s very useful information, many thanks. It suggests that my search parameters should be widened, since if a British ship could be boarded the men could have been older and coming from the college in Stonyhurst after all. If it was an English ship, your point about both watches being required on...
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:30 am
- Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
- Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13510
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:54 pm
- Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
- Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13510
Re: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
Thank you so much for that very useful information. I am due to travel to the National Archives in Kew in a week to consult the Muster rolls for HBMS Indefatigable , which is why I was checking whether they were likely to include all crew members. I'm not sure that my ancestor was on the Indefatigab...
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:21 pm
- Forum: Naval Officers and Crew
- Topic: Press ganged crew on muster rolls
- Replies: 11
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Press ganged crew on muster rolls
Hi, can anyone confirm whether crew members who were originally press-ganged from another ship were included on muster rolls? I'm researching an ancestor who was a civilian passenger on a (possibly French) ship captured by a man-o-war commanded by Sir Edward Pellew c.1790s. The man stayed aboard as ...