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Subject: [Mar] Cooks, surgeons, Greenfields,Harwich
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 03:29:37 EDT


Hello,
Any advice on where to look for my Greenfields. Henry Richard
Greenfield was admitted to Greenwich Royal Hospital School on 1/12/1868. I am
more interested (at the moment) in his father Frederick William Henry (known
as Henry in the Navy) who served in the Royal Navy for around 25 years. I
believe cooks were Warrant Officers at this time? He served in Crimea and
Syria. Any chances of finding the ships' he served on? He had a pension of
£32. Any recommended bibliography of this time would be appreciated. He
retired in 1864 and died later that year.
His father was Frederick Greenfield, a surgeon, little more is known,
but I wonder whether he was a naval man? Any ideas where to look?
One more relative, General Wade, a mariner accidentally drowned in
Harwich harbour in 1855, I think he was a Merchant Navy man, but as he
drowned he might have been on those coastal traders, it looks as if he was a
Londoner.
Any
helps appreciated,

Barry Laughton.

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