Family History

Copying other people's information blindly defeats the point in my opinion... it is just name hoarding :( It is sad, especially for those of us who want to get it right!

I found the original entry on Ancestry I think, as a "you might be interested in..." while looking up somebody else. It was a surprise to find that, of all places, the Old Bailey was where he ended up being tried and yeah, I saw the website and the trial notes! He got a few newspaper entries as well. I think this was the biggest mistake of Mark's life... he sounds like he was in a bit of shock after the event and must have suffered horribly- I think I read that at that time about 1/4 of all people imprisoned in Newgate died before they got to trial! Mark and the ship's cook said that he wasn't a violent person by nature and the Governor of Newgate said that Mark came across as a "quiet and inoffensive man". From his Merchant Navy records, I know that he continued to be a mariner, making trips nationally and abroad- at one point he was in hospital on Malta, although I don't know what for. I believe he died in Oct/Nov 1851- that's the date of the burial, which matches his name (which was not common), date of birth and is in a churchyard right next to the port. My current theory is that perhaps he died on board the ship and was put ashore in that port to be buried rather than buried at sea. Annoyingly, the deaths at sea records didn't start until 1852... so I'll never know. Yeah, this family is the one with the most detail of all my branches and I guess therefore the one I feel most attached to. This is something those name hoarders miss out on!

Copying other people's information blindly defeats the point in my opinion... it is just name hoarding :( It is sad, especially for those of us who want to get it right!

I found the original entry on Ancestry I think, as a "you might be interested in..." while looking up somebody else. It was a surprise to find that, of all places, the Old Bailey was where he ended up being tried and yeah, I saw the website and the trial notes! He got a few newspaper entries as well. I think this was the biggest mistake of Mark's life... he sounds like he was in a bit of shock after the event and must have suffered horribly- I think I read that at that time about 1/4 of all people imprisoned in Newgate died before they got to trial! Mark and the ship's cook said that he wasn't a violent person by nature and the Governor of Newgate said that Mark came across as a "quiet and inoffensive man". From his Merchant Navy records, I know that he continued to be a mariner, making trips nationally and abroad- at one point he was in hospital on Malta, although I don't know what for. I believe he died in Oct/Nov 1851- that's the date of the burial, which matches his name (which was not common), date of birth and is in a churchyard right next to the port. My current theory is that perhaps he died on board the ship and was put ashore in that port to be buried rather than buried at sea. Annoyingly, the deaths at sea records didn't start until 1852... so I'll never know. Yeah, this family is the one with the most detail of all my branches and I guess therefore the one I feel most attached to. This is something those name hoarders miss out on!