Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Documents

Reference Detail Dates Archive Keywords
D(W)1721/3/291

folder of correspondence including three letters regarding straggling seamen, 1692-6

1692 to 1696 Staffordshire Record Office mariners
D740/17/5

copy letter from Richard Poulton to son John Prince Frederick at Portsmouth, 1755

1755 to 1755 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence
D357/K/1

papers of Capt. Richard Lane of the Acaster, 1797-1806, including correspondence regarding Madeira wine 1797; naval prize account, 1799; inventory of sundry cabin furniture, 1804; correspondence regarding payments to Madame Carle, Richard Lane's mistress, 1799

1797 to 1806 Staffordshire Record Office ships alcohol navy
D3610/14/1/1-4

letters of George Wilkes Unett, 1799-1810, including references to slave sales at St Pierre, 1799, siege of Copenhagen, September 1807, naval affairs throughout the West Indies, 1808-1810

1799 to 1810 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence slavery Caribbean navy
D3610/7-8

letters of James Baillie Fraser, 1810-13 and of Alexander John Fraser, 1812-13, regarding Peninsular War, including reference to embarkation from Portsmouth, 1813

1810 to 1813 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence battles
D991/1-8

service appointment certificates of Talavera Vernon Anson, 1836-66

1836 to 1866 Staffordshire Record Office None
D3610/16/1

journal of Thomas Unett in the Crimean War, 1854-5, including references to discipline at sea, descriptions of Malta, Gallipoli, Marseilles, etc.

1854 to 1855 Staffordshire Record Office diary battles navy Europe
D1484

three service certificates of Thomas Rowson in the Royal Marines, 1890-1924

1890 to 1924 Staffordshire Record Office None
D3610/1-12

letters of Richard Unett to his parents regarding service in the Far East, Yemen, eastern Mediterranean, 1948-57, including voyage home from Malaya

1948 to 1957 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence travel Asia
D(W) 1788 p61 B.41

misc. papers including  conveyances of 1/8 of Prosperous Elizabeth of London and of the William of London, 1649, 1659, accounts of ships' goods, 1651-2

1649 to 1659 Staffordshire Record Office None
D590/716

letter from Henry Robinson to T.W. Giffard with offer to sell him the brig, frigate and schooner from his `little navy', 1835

1835 to 1835 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence ships
D3610/17/2

copy letter from James Robinson Unett, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, including advice on preparations for emigration, 4 August 1840

1840 to 1840 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence
D641/3/N/6/7

volume containing copy of dispatches of George S.S. Jerningham from Stutgart, including references to emigration to America, 1854-9

1854 to 1859 Staffordshire Record Office None
3586

register and recollections and of the Byrd family by Edward Byrd, c.1900, including of family members who emigrated to Australia

1900 to 1900 Staffordshire Record Office None
D641/2/K/2/5

bundle of letters, mostly financial and concerning continental affairs, to Adam Colclough, early eighteenth century, including reference to South Sea Company problems, 1720

1720 to 1720 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence
D872

letter book of Samuel Barrett & Co. tin plate manufacturers of Kings Bromley, 1796-1803, including trade to Scotland, Holland, Russia

1796 to 1803 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence Companies metal
D(W)1920

papers of Hugh Hamilton Lindsay and his nephew Robert Crawford Antrobus chiefly relating to trade in China, 1829-74, including travel to Java, Phillipines

1829 to 1874 Staffordshire Record Office commerce Asia Indonesia
D3259/10

journal by William Bagot of tour in the Low Countries and France, 1629

1629 to 1629 Staffordshire Record Office diary travel
D(W)1771/7

letter from T. Pickstock, Dartmouth, to his father Thomas at Newhouse, near Stafford, with news of his return from the `odious climate of Newfoundland', 1718

1718 to 1718 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence Canada
D1057/M/I

travel letters of Revd Richard Congreve of Leacroft, 1733-76, including references to naval situation in Minorca, c.1738-52, travel to China, 1742, travels in Low Countries, 1752, capture of Ralph Congreve on Borneo, 1747

1733 to 1776 Staffordshire Record Office correspondence navy Asia