by B. Kennicott, Vicar - Entry 440 Page 55
Commencing Military Service between 1835-1857 see
"United Kingdom, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KCQF-FF6 : James Fleck, ; citing "Merchant Navy Seamen 1835-1941," Bright solid; BT 112-116, 119-120. BT116, Public Record Office, Surrey.
Educated to receive a Master Mariner's Certificate.
Extracted from Royal Hospital School Admission Papers for James Cook Fleck aged 11 - held by the Public Records Office, London, Eng.
Received his Mate's Certificate of Service # 59107, 3rd day of January 1851 at Sunderland having been employed as Apprentice & Mate for 13 years in the British Merchant Service in Foreign Trade Granted by the Register General of Seamen, London
Registered as a Mariner aged 27 living 10 Frederick Street, Bishopwearmouth with his Brother in Law, John Gibson aged 33 (Draper), wife Isabella aged 28; Children: John 5, William 3, Charles 1, Margaret Terry 15 Visitor, George Moses 21 Draper's Assistant, Jane Bailey 19 Nurse, Margaret Levell 31 Servant
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(Known to be current from 16 Jul 1850)
Frederick Street
SUNDERLAND DUR
ENGLAND
The Proxy of Renunciation was executed by James Cook Fleck (eldest Son), Master Mariner of Frederick Street, Sunderland, John Ord and Thomas Jones, both Yeoman (small Landowners) on the 16th July, 1850 -
Signed Sealed and Delivered by:
Clara Hill Fleck (Sic) Stevenson (married a Month and still not used to her new name)
Henry Durham Stevenson
Isabella Barker Gibson
John Gibson
J. B. Gibson
William Gibson (Farmer of Sherburn)
In the presence of
David D. Scott (Clerk to Mr. Kidson)
Sunderland
Dated ninth day of July in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty.
Cropton Fleck - Signed later, on the 16th day of July 1850
In the presence of
Henry Armstrong, London
John Woodward, London
