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Wanton Surname Ancestry Results

Our indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'wanton'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 24 records (displaying 11 to 20): 

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Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors (1740-1748)
On the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession against various European powers, there was a muster in Rhode Island for the defence of the colony, and privateers were manned to harry Spanish, and later French, shipping. Howard M Chapin compiled this comprehensive list of soldiers and sailors from the surviving records.

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Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors
 (1740-1748)
Masters of Merchantmen (1757)
The movements of British and foreign ships in Britain and abroad are recorded as Ship News in the London newspapers: these are the entries from January to June 1757.

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Masters of Merchantmen
 (1757)
British administration in North America (1755-1776)
The papers of the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, who served as Secretary of State for the American Department, contain correspondence relating to North America and the West Indies. They include some material earlier than 1755.

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British administration in North America
 (1755-1776)
Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America (1779-1782)
These are the headquarters papers of sir Henry Clinton, British commander-in-chief during the American war of independence. Many of the individuals recorded were part of the British military administration, but others are refugees and merchants whose lives had been disrupted by the conflict. These records are from August 1779 to June 1782.

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Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America
 (1779-1782)
Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America (1782-1783)
These are the headquarters papers of sir Guy Carleton, British commander-in-chief during the American war of independence. Many of the individuals recorded were part of the British military administration, but others are refugees and merchants whose lives had been disrupted by the conflict. These records cover July 1782 to March 1783.

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Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America
 (1782-1783)
Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America (1783)
These are the headquarters papers of sir Guy Carleton, British commander-in-chief at the end of the American war of independence. Many of the individuals recorded were part of the British military administration, but others are refugees and merchants whose lives had been disrupted by the conflict. These records cover April to December 1783.

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Soldiers, administrators, refugees and merchants in America
 (1783)
Officials of British colonies (1805)
Officials of the British colonies of Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the island of St John in the Gulph of St Laurence, Cape Breton, Jamaica, Fort Charles, Barbadoes, the Leeward or Charibbee Islands, St Christopher, Antigua, Nevis, Montserrat, the Virgin Islands, Grenada, St Vincent, Tobago, Dominica, Turk's Head, the Bahamas, the port of Exuma [in the Bahamas], Bermuda, Trinidada, Curacoa, Ceylon, the Gold Coast of Africa, New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Gibraltar and Malta are listed in Holden's Triennial Directory of 1805 to 1807.

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Officials of British colonies
 (1805)
Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions (1834)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad.

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Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
 (1834)
Dissolutions of Partnerships (1835)
Trade partnerships dissolved, or the removal of one partner from a partnership of several traders

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Dissolutions of Partnerships
 (1835)
National ArchivesBritish merchant seamen (1835-1836)
At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act this large register of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. Each seaman was assigned a number, and the names were arranged in the register by first two letters of the surname (our sample scan shows one of the pages for 'Sm'); in addition, an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. But no effective method was devised to prevent the same man being registered twice as he appeared in a second crew list; moreover, the original crew lists were clearly difficult for the registry clerks to copy, and some of the surname spellings appear to be corrupted. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and this register was abandoned after less than two years: but it is an apparently comprehensive source for British merchant seamen in 1835 to 1836. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthplace; quality (master, captain, mate, 2nd mate, mariner, seaman, fisherman, cook, carpenter, boy &c.); and the name and home port of his ship, with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all (for instance, Charleston and Stockholm appear in the sample scan). The final column 'How disposed of' is rarely used, and indicates those instances where a man died, was discharged, or deserted his ship during the voyage.

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British merchant seamen
 (1835-1836)
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