34 years on the Royal Yacht
Oct. 25th, 2014 03:23 pmHaving been inspired by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sir_guinglain's example, I've using my FindMyPast credits to look up family in their newspaper archive collection. One of the easiest to find was one of my ggg-grandfathers on my father's side, one of several generations who served in the Royal Navy.
Hampshire Telegraph, 21st December 1889.
In fact, as an example of one of those presents, a rather earlier article.
Aberdeen Journal, 4th October 1848
I had no idea about him when I first started looking into my family history, just a vague memory of a naval connection. Over the last few years, I've gradually found out more - this Leonard was a man at arms, first on the Royal George, the previous Royal Yacht, and then the Victoria and Albert. He seems to have been educated, as I managed to get copies of a number of documents with his handwriting.
They are connected with getting his son, also Leonard and my gg-grandfather, a place at the Greenwich Hospital School. (The one housed in the rather spectacular Christopher Wren building, as seen in the climax of Thor 2. :-D) The younger Leonard appeared in the census at Greenwich, and the National Archives still hold a lot of the original papers relating the admission of boys of that era. I have a photocopy of a letter written by my ggg-grandfather, explaining that there was currently only one churchwarden in the parish, and that's why he doesn't have two signatures on the admission documents. :-)
It served to help move the family up in the world, as Leonard the younger entered the Navy as an officer. He then went on to have another son Leonard who went into the Navy, as well as Harry, my great-grandfather.
Doing the national newspaper search, I found several other references to him in the transcripts that I didn't pay to access the originals - to do with him showing parties of local bigwigs around the royal apartments on the yacht, presumably like the housekeeper at Pemberley.
sir_guinglain's example, I've using my FindMyPast credits to look up family in their newspaper archive collection. One of the easiest to find was one of my ggg-grandfathers on my father's side, one of several generations who served in the Royal Navy.Hampshire Telegraph, 21st December 1889.
In fact, as an example of one of those presents, a rather earlier article.
Aberdeen Journal, 4th October 1848
I had no idea about him when I first started looking into my family history, just a vague memory of a naval connection. Over the last few years, I've gradually found out more - this Leonard was a man at arms, first on the Royal George, the previous Royal Yacht, and then the Victoria and Albert. He seems to have been educated, as I managed to get copies of a number of documents with his handwriting.
They are connected with getting his son, also Leonard and my gg-grandfather, a place at the Greenwich Hospital School. (The one housed in the rather spectacular Christopher Wren building, as seen in the climax of Thor 2. :-D) The younger Leonard appeared in the census at Greenwich, and the National Archives still hold a lot of the original papers relating the admission of boys of that era. I have a photocopy of a letter written by my ggg-grandfather, explaining that there was currently only one churchwarden in the parish, and that's why he doesn't have two signatures on the admission documents. :-)
It served to help move the family up in the world, as Leonard the younger entered the Navy as an officer. He then went on to have another son Leonard who went into the Navy, as well as Harry, my great-grandfather.
Doing the national newspaper search, I found several other references to him in the transcripts that I didn't pay to access the originals - to do with him showing parties of local bigwigs around the royal apartments on the yacht, presumably like the housekeeper at Pemberley.
