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Now I need to find out what the date and departure port in 1809 was
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Assuming the ship travelled from Calcutta to Madras, then to Ceylon and then to the Cape of Good Hope, in previous posts we have the newspaper of the time stating the WH sailed from Madras on 13 Oct reaching the Cape about Christmas Day and the Wikipedia page saying she arrived at Madras 24 Sept (no leaving date) and reached the Cape 16 Dec. So they can't both be right!
The Wki page got their information from here:
https://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_l...&submit=search
I would have expected that to be more accurate than what was published in Britsh Newspapers at the time, but without seeing the document it's impossible to know how easy it was to follow accurately.
In post #103 you quoted the newspaper as stating, "1809 • Ceylon to UK" but there is no mention of Ceylon in the Madras Courier 20 Sept 1809. I wondered if they actually travelled from Madras?