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In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1773/193
Petition of Sarah Roberts, widow of John Roberts, Mariner. John Roberts served on board the DARTMOUTH for several months and was killed on going from the ship [to] cut the Highlanders boats. Soon after the ship was lost.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-04-27
ADM/A/1783/180
The Petition of Ann Sheldon Widow.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-12-10
ADM/A/1814/98
Your letter of the 7th inst; concerns their Majesties' Bounty being claimed by the Widow of John Hall, late Midshipman in the STERLING CASTLE and killed on that Ship in a fight against a Danish Man of War.
We opine that his Widow and Children are by Establishment entitled to this Bounty.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-09-04
ADM/A/1823/35
Settling a Pension on Magdalen Osborn, widow of Captain Robert Osborn Commander of the ALDBOROUGH Ketch who was killed in action off Calais. Countersigned by William Bridgeman, Admiralty Board Secretary.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-06-29
ADM/A/1784/218
Questions have arisen concerning the entitlement of the widows of serving personnel who are killed at sea applying for Bounty after they have remarried. An Order in Council however has ruled in favour of such widows continuing to be awarded compensation regardless of subsequent status.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1693-03-02
ADM/A/1793/13
To pay the Widows and Children of such men as died or were slain in the Fleet last year, the wages due upon their appearance on board.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1690-09-19
ADM/A/1769/87
To make allowance of Bounty to the Widow and children of Thomas Roberts late Carpenter the PORTSMOUTH, died of wounds in French captivity.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
ADM/A/1823/370
[No date recorded] Complaint lodged by the widows of Officers and Seamen against Captain Thomas Brian, Commander of the FALCON in which several irregularities and embezzlements are cited On the reverse is an instruction to the Navy Board to look into the matter and report.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-12-30
ADM/A/1790/219
The Widows and Relations of some of the Marines said to have served in the CHARLES GALLEY have Petitioned for compensation. An Order is given for strict enquiry to be made as to their entitlement.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-05-13
ADM/A/1819/128
Giving instructions that the wages due to Lieutenant Jasper Bourne who died in the West Indies in 1693 are to be paid following receipt of a Petition from his widow.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-05-15
ADM/A/1819/142
The widow of Captain Grenville Collins is to be paid two hundred pounds from funds held by the Treasurer of the Navy in consideration of her husbands work in surveying the coastline of Britain and in escorting the King to Ireland and Holland.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-03-30
ADM/A/1817/355
Pay the Widow of the late Captain Thomas Heath two hundred pounds, in consideration of her husbands good service in burning the ROYAL SUN at Cherbrooke.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-05
ADM/A/1822/39
A petition has been presented by Mary Nichols, widow, setting forth that her late husband Isaac Nichols going to New England as Master of the CONCEPTION prize, was accidentally killed on board on 5 March 1691.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-07-09
ADM/A/1821/84
We direct you to cause to be forthwith paid to Mrs Cotton, Widow of Captain Richard Cotton, late Commander of the DIAMOND, and his children, the sum of two hundred pounds , out of the money in the hands of the Navy Treasurer, for his Majesty's Tenths of the Prizes taken from the Enemy, in consi…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-16
ADM/A/1813/145
1. An account is required of the circumstances wherein Mrs Everard, mother of the late Captain Boteler, paid £100 to his widow.
2. An account is also required of what wages are due for his service on any of their Majesties' ships and what the supernumeraries charged to him amount to.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1696-05-11
ADM/A/1830/95
An application has been made by the Widow of Captain Anthony Hastings for the sum of £168 9s 0p disbursed by her Husband upon the procurement of men for his command HMS SANDWICH in 1692. She had 539 men entered in her books, but you report that there are no vouchers for the disbursements. Mrs.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1694-11-27
ADM/A/1813/275
The widow of Mr Austin Lucas, late Lieutenant of the MONMOUTH, has petitioned for his wages to be paid; his sudden death having resulted in the loss of his papers. His wages are to be paid to anyone lawfully empowered to receive them.
Document signed by Sir John Lowther, Admiralty Commissioner, bap.1642-1706 and Henry Priestman, Admiralty Commissioner, 1647-1712 (Manuscript)
1694-04-04
ADM/A/1806/54
We direct you to cause to be paid to Ann Day, Widow and Executrix of the late Captain Thomas Day, the Wages due to him for his service as Lieutenant in the DRAGON and RESOLUTION, and Commander of the PHOENIX Bomb vessel, it being represented to us that his Journals and other papers were lost at his …
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-06-24
ADM/A/1820/178
In accordance with an order made by the Lords Justices, Cornelia Galaway, the widow of Captain Thomas Galaway, killed in a battle with the French, is to be paid a pension of £60 per annum.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-02-07
ADM/A/1827/83
Issuing instructions for a pension of seventy pounds per annum is to be paid to Elizabeth Harman widow of Captain William Harman late Commander of the ADVICE who died on active service in the West Indies.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-02-29
ADM/A/1781/194
Upon the humble petition of the widows of the seamen of the CORONATION, which by weather and the springing of a leak was cast away near Plymouth, praying His Majesty's Bounty Money for their loss, His Majesty is pleased to grant 4 1/2 months of their husbands' pay and allowances at the ti…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-01-14
ADM/A/1826/158
£200 to be paid from His Majesty's Tenths of Prizes money to Mrs Mary Launce, widow of Captain James Launce, late Commander of the EXPERIMENT, who died of a pestilential distemper in the West Indies.
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1692-02-17
ADM/A/1781/105
Your report of 12 February on the petition of Margaret Pratt, widow of John Pratt, Mariner which states that it appears by a certificate from Captain Carter, late Commander of the PLYMOUTH, that John Pratt was killed in an engagement with the French at Bantry Bay on 1 May 1689.…
In-letters and orders received by the Navy Board (Manuscript)
1695-08-28
ADM/A/1822/292
Thomasin Tregleith, Widow, has made application to this Board for an allowance of Bounty Money according to His Majesty's Establishment, for the loss of her husband Thomas Tregleith, who died of wounds on board the PRINCE OF ORANGE hired ship at Guardalupa on 7 May 1691.…
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