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Subject: Re: [PHLY-RTS] Charles WALLINGTON, Sea Captain, Circa 1811?
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 11:14:26 EST

In a message dated 4/2/03 9:37:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

> Could someone please look for my Charles Wallington in the Philadelphia
> City Directories for the period around 1811. I believe he was a sea
> captain.
>
> Sophie: As you can see, it lists, for the years I had access to,
> no such a one as Charles, by that name. Allow me to suggest that,
> assuming you and these volumes have it correct, that he may have been
> Charles Edward WALLINGTON, or, perhaps less likely, Edward Charles
> WALLINGTON.
>
> Of course someone by the exact name you gave could have appeared
> between 1810 and 1820...
>
Sophie and Vince-

By the statement "I believe he was a sea captain" I take it that you are
going on family "lore" perhaps in saying that this was the case. It must
have been a popular or desirable thing to pass down in families in those days
because I had heard a similar story in my family about ancestors of mine.
Turned out when we looked into the actual records they were more apt to have
been drawbridge tenders or truck boat captains (little boats that transported
farm produce into the city to be sold there). The truth is often that they
had something to do with the area waterways in their occupation but often
they were not the more glamorous "sea captains" from the stories we hear. You
might want to expand your search a bit to include related occupations.

Joan

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