Seamen's records for Topsham men

SEAMEN'S RECORDS FOR TOPSHAM MEN

The service records of Royal Navy seamen for the period from 1873 to 1923 can be found on-line at the address below:

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline

Copies of individual records, giving information, which ranges from names of ships to the man's conduct and personal appearance, can be purchased on-line for a small fee and are full of interest to the family historian.

The River Exe at Topsham

©Richard J. Brine

SURNAME	OTHER NAME(S)	BIRTH DATE
ANSTEY	Albert Glanvill	1 Jan 1869
AVERY	Arthur James	15 Jan 1856
BACK**	Cecil Robert	11 Jul 1904
BACK**	Cecil Robert	11 Jul 1904
BRADLEY	Emmanuel Omega	28 Aug 1882
BRADLEY	Edgar George	8 Dec 1879
BRICKNELL	Alfred William James	7 Mar 1876
BRICKNELL	John	8 Jun 1843
BROOM	Elias Henry	22 Sep 1882
BROWN	Charles P	25 Dec 1838
CANN	Ephraim	9 May 1850
CARTER	Ernest Daniel	26 Aug 1871
CHAMBERS	Henry	11 Aug 1908
CHANNING	Thomas Henry	7 Jul 1864
CHANNING	William Henry	11 Oct 1866
COLES	Henry	27 Aug 1884
COLES	John	26 Sep 1852
COOKSLEY	John James	6 Apr 1858
COOKSLEY	Richard	19 Feb 1835
COSWAY	Alfred	12 Sep 1856
DAVEY	Alfred William Isaac	13 Sep 1884
DAVEY	James Frank Parker	30 Mar 1864
DOWNE	Edgar	30 Apr 1871
DOWNE	Walter George	5 Dec 1868
DUFFETT	Reginald Harry	3 Sep 1886
DUNSCOMBE	Richard William Wreford	14 Apr 1904
EDDY	George Mondy	27 Jan 1859
EDDY	William Foster	14 Apr 1854
EDWORTHY	Alfred James	21 Feb 1875
EDWORTHY	Willie Smith	4 Jan 1886
FAIRCHILD	Albert John	6 Sep 1887
FORRESTER	Thomas Henry	12 Sep 1845
FORRESTER	William Lobb	29 Oct 1851
FOWELL	William Tozer	6 May 1856
FREGUNNA	John Nicholas	1844
FROST	Charles John James	7 Apr 1854
GADEN	Henry	18 Aug 1848
GADEN	William	19 Nov 1834
GOODING	Henry John	11 Aug 1881
GOODRICH	Samuel Bridger William	7 Mar 1850
HARVEY	Alfred John	26 Jul 1863
HAWKINS	George	22 Nov 1877
HEARD	Allan	16 May 1872
HELLIER	Joseph	1 Nov 1881
HENSLEY	William Matthew	20 May 1878
HISCOX	Wallace Herbert	19 Apr 1890
HITCHCOCK	George Westley	21 Jan 1901
HOBMAN	Edward	6 Feb 1847
HOOPER	Fred	9 Jan 1874
HOOPER	James Frederick	4 Feb 1874
HOOPER	John	March 1836
HOOPER	Robert Edward	20 Jun 1843
HOOPER	William	3 Jun 1856
HORESWELL*	John Steer	4 Jan 1850
HORSWELL*	William	1 Mar 1836
HORSWELL*	William	3 Jun 1856
HOWARD	Frederick John	14 Mar 1877
HUSSEY	Henry	29 Jun 1845
IRWIN	Leslie Clarence	27 May 1904
JAMES	Cecil Arthur	12 Aug 1908
JAMES	Thomas	9 Dec 1872
JAMES	William Francis	1849
JENKINS	Thomas	1 Jul 1810
KENNARD	Thomas	1 Dec 1853
LANG	Fred	13 Nov 1879
LEE	Thomas Samuel	20 Dec 1847
LUXON	Henry James	6 Feb 1878
LUXON	Onesiphorus ***	19 Jun 1869
LUXON	Richard John	22 May 1880
MADDICKS	James Salter	27 Feb 1848
MALLETT	Albert	27 Jan 1870
MARGRIE	Joseph	27 Nov 1846
MARTIN	Robert Henry	4 Aug 1847
MATTHEWS	James Tillett	2 Sep 1838
MAY	Richard	8 Feb 1872
MAY	William John	8 Sep 1900
MOORE	Samuel William	28 Mar 1856
MORIARTY	Henry	11 Sep 1905
MUGFORD	John Thomas	2 Apr 1862
MUGFORD	George	28 Feb 1853
MUGFORD	William	27 Apr 1844
MULLY*	John Partridge	14 Apr 1844
MULLEY*	William G	13 Jan 1833
MURPHY	George Edward	31 May 1881
MURPHY	Richard	1 Dec 1876
NEWMAN	Henry George	14 Aug 1869
NORMAN	James	15 Jun 1850
NORMAN	William	1857
NOSWORTHY	William Henry	29 Nov 1888
NORTON	Frederick	1 Apr 1852
NORTON	Frederick John	21 Feb 1886
NORTON	Thomas George	8 Oct 1865
PARKER	Henry Thomas	26 Jul 1902
PATE	Percival Redvers	17 Jul 1900
PEARCE	Robert	16 Aug 1857
PEARCE	Samuel	11 Dec 1875
PERRY	George Mervyn	18 Mar 1899
PIKE	Frederick George	8 Oct 1877
PILLIFANT	George	5 Mar 1869
PITTS	Frederick Thomas	18 Nov 1869
PITTS	William James	30 Nov 1855
POLLARD	Albert George	20 Jan 1865
POLLARD	Fred	24 Aug 1872
POLLARD	George	10 May 1850
POLLARD	Gilbert	21 Mar 1868
POTTER	Thomas	25 Nov 1836
PRING	Frank	1 Nov 1899
PULMAN	Albert Edward	5 Feb 1874
PULMAN	Charles Henry	16 Dec 1871
PULMAN	Henry	27 Feb 1867
PULMAN	Samuel	23 May 1877
PYM	Albert	21 Apr 1868
PYM	Benjamin William	7 May 1880
PYM	Frank	14 Sep 1873
PYM	Frederick Edward	17 Jun 1880
PYM	George	24 Oct 1871
PYM	John William	27 Mar 1895
PYM	Thomas	10 Aug 1873
QUICK	Frederick	30 Dec 1885
REDMAN	Owen Richard	10 Aug 1892
REDMAN	Richard John	21 Apr 1867
ROW	Anthony	1835 Dec
ROW	William	21 Sep 1830
SANDFORD	William	19 Dec 1855
SHEPHARD*	William	14 Feb 1862
SHEPHERD*	James	8 Jul 1861
SIMEONS	Frederick Cornelius	10 Sep 1891
SIMEONS	Charles Edmund	4 Feb 1866
START	William	18 Jul 1819
STOKES	Alfred James	13 Jul 1875
STOKES	George W	10 Jun 1843
STUCKEY	Edgar Thomas	9 Apr 1873
SYMONDS	William Thomas	7 Mar 1888
TARR	John Elias	14 Jan 1842
THORNE	Alfred John	1 Aug 1874
THORNE	Thomas	16 Apr 1833
TOWELL	Henry	25 Jan 1865
TOWELL	James Tozer	11 Sep 1846
TROUT	Courtney John	21 Dec 1878
TROUT	Ernest W	25 Aug 1854
TROUT +	Rupert Henry	8 Oct 1874
TROWERN	John Henry	1852
TURL	Harry	27 Jul 1875
UNDERHILL	John	1 Jan 1857
VOYSEY	Richard William	5 Oct 1874
WADLING	Charles Leonard	14 Oct 1862
WANNELL	Alfred James	30 Nov 1882
WANNELL	Charles	15 Feb 1845
WANNELL	Elias	21 Mar 1874
WANNELL+	George Robert	3 Nov 1874
WANNELL	Henry Francis	6 Aug 1863
WANNELL	Robert	15 Oct 1855
WARREN	Reginald Harry	11 Nov 1891
WEST	Richard Albert	7 Dec 1862
WEST	William John	9 May 1870
WESTCOTT	Frederick	24 May 1851
WESTCOTT	Greenfield	13 May 1857
WILLIAMS	Thomas John	9 Oct 1908
WILLIAMS	Robert	1845
WILSON	Charles	18 Jan 1857
WILSON	George	30 Nov 1851

*Spelling of names differs but these men probably belong to the same family

**This man may have signed on on two separate occasions.

+ Killed in action in the Great War.

***Onesiphorus (a name meaning "bringing profit") was a Christian of Ephesus who showed St. Paul great kindness while he was in Rome. It is not a name which crops up frequently!