Lincolnshire/Yorkshire or where?

[Foxyloxy]

Samuel Blay
born (15) and Baptised(22) Feb 1819 Stickney Lincolnshire
5 Jan 1836 Lincolnshire Criminal Registers
15 Aug 1839 First went to sea
1 Aug 1845 lived at 1 Duke St Hull Yorkshire
Occupation 'Riverman'
Merchant Navy 'out' 1847 'home' 1848

The last mention of his name is some sort of village census in Stickney Parish Book and his widowed mum writes at the top of the page, herself and her household and the bottom of the page her children, who they married, number of children they have , where they are
1856 :date worked out as I haven't written the date on the copy I have from the dates on the record, ie Vicar arrived in 1855, his mother died in 1857 it sgives his name and next to it "at sea"


I can find no census, no marriage, no death:'( Can anyone help please

 

[duckweed]

He might have been in the Crimean War. Some naval people stayed on on Malta.

 

[Foxyloxy]

Thank you for that, somewhere else I can search and see

 

[oznannie]

Hi Foxyloxy, please can I ask why he was listed as John Stradder in the criminal registers, does it say alias Samuel Blay underneath.
Just curious, thank you!

Ozn

 

[oznannie]

1841 census in Stickney has a James Blay 55 Sexton at the Parish Office
Eliza 45,John 25, Thomas 15,Wm 11
remembering ages for adults were rounded up in this census.
Is this your family??
Cheers

Ozn

 

[Foxyloxy]

1841 census in Stickney has a James Blay 55 Sexton at the Parish Office
Eliza 45,John 25, Thomas 15,Wm 11
remembering ages for adults were rounded up in this census.
Is this your family??
Cheers

Ozn

Yes it seems he used John Stradder as an alias ( also looked for that name but he joined the Merchant Navy using his real name 3 years later
5 Jan 1836 aged 15yrs
"John Stradder otherwise Samuel Blay, of Swineshead, pleaded guilty to an indictment for stealing a pair of gaiters from Benton Chambers, of that place. "

Yes that is the family in Stickney in the 1841 census and the only 'connection' I had for Thomas and the 1841 doesn't give relationships ( no baptism, he didn't marry, he was working elsewhere in other census), then I found the parish book and the curate had taken a village census in c1856 and he is named by his widowed mother as her child which is great, all the other children were baptised, seems they forgot him, although he is remembered as he donated the church bell and clock so his gifts and name are proudly displayed on a plaque in St Lukes

Thomas it seems was one out of two siblings who were 'good eggs' out of 9 siblings, two good eggs, another one died less than a week old but the rest.........well Lincoln Assizes was their second home, inside prisons for all sorts and the village Constables note book is FULL of their 'crimes' ( and some of their childrens crimes)

Samuel joined in 1839 but his seamans ticket only gives one sailing out/home in 1847/48 in 1845 he was living in 1 Duke St Hull Yorkshire, no idea where he was in 1841/51 census though