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Catalogue reference: ADM 1/8766/75
Transferred to ADM 1/8998
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Folios 484-485: Philip Hue, HMS Actaeon, Liverpool. Responding to Admiralty query...
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1923/121
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This record is about the Folios 484-485: Philip Hue, HMS Actaeon, Liverpool. Responding to Admiralty query... dating from 1800 Sept 24 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- ADM 1/1923/121
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1800 Sept 24
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Description (What the record is about)
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Folios 484-485: Philip Hue, HMS Actaeon, Liverpool. Responding to Admiralty query of 22 September, says that William Southern has been forwarded to the Fleet aboard HMS Chapman on 12 September. Also acknowledges their letter of same date re John Rees [sic] - says this young man entered as a volunteer and is very fit for the Service, he sees no reason to discharge him.
Folios 486-487: enclosure with folios 484-485. James Spencer writes regarding John Reece, saying the young man appears not to have been at sea but had worked with an older brother in a small boat on the Mersey in order to assist his mother, a widow with 6 children. However for the past 2 years he had worked as a carpenter at Mr Baldwin's Yard, having been taken on as an errand boy out of compassion for his circumstances.
Folio 488: enclosure with folios 484-485. Birth certificate dated 28 April 1786, for John, son of William Reece, a boatman of New Quay, and Cicely, his wife.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Cap H525
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Letters from Captains, Surnames H: 1800, numbers 351-889. (Described at item level)
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