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From: "Francesca Garforth" <>
Subject: [Mar] Thomas Bulmer 1727
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:14:25 -0000

I am living in a cottage at Westerdale on the N.Yorks Moors. In the garden there is a large stone monument describing some of the journeys (and one shipwreck) of 'Thomas Bulmer who lived here'. His ships are named as the Charity, the Providence, the Hopeful (the one which was wrecked) and the Faithful. He sailed 'to many foreign shores then Germany, Holland, France and Spain' so I assume he was not a whaler? The crew consisted of 27 souls. Thomas Bulmer died in 1733. He had two sons, Thomas and Timothy and, tracking the family through the parish registers, it appears that this branch died out in the early 1800's when three children died in infancy.
I am trying to find out more about the ships, crew and cargo in which Thomas Bulmer was involved. I assume he sailed from Whitby? The land round this cottage was known as Bulmer's fields in the late 17 century so he presumably came from this village and did not merely retire here.
Any information would be grayefully received. The Greenwich records do not appear to go back so far? Francesca Garforth.

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