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Subject: [Mar] Re: Mariners-D Digest V01 #186
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:17:27 EDT


In a message dated 6/1/01 1:47:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

<< I now have an even earlier ancestor Master Mariner William Gent,who was
master of the ''William&Mary'' which sailed from Kings Lynn,Norfolk around
1840.Would any listener have any info on this vessel? possibly a brig?
. >>

I do not have much helpful to add but I am also interested in this ship. My
Grandfather John Hudson Peeps of Kings Lynn was Master of the(a) William&Mary
in 1881. On 1881 census the vessel is in Stranton, Durham. It seems like we
have ancestors who probably knew each other or even worked together.

Andy Prescott:
ONS: Pepys/Peeps (Pepis, Pepes, Peppys, Peyps, Peaps, Peapes, Peapys, Papes)
Also interested in: Prescott, Hardman, Phythian.

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