My Heritage

[Merry]

There's a merchant seaman's record on FMP dated 1845 for a William Lamb from Whitby Ticket 107816.

[ElizabethHerts]

Please could you give me the link, Merry? The men I'm looking at so far aren't correct.

[ElizabethHerts]

I've got him.

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...2131883530%2F1

But no information that enables me to tell whether it's him. I have to be cautious as there was another big Lamb family in Whitby at the same time.

[Merry]

I've not been able to find anything more about that William from other Merchanst Service records.

[ElizabethHerts]

It could well be him. He would have been 16 in 1845 and there was not much for him in Whitby at the time. When he died he owned a lot of shipping property, which I assume it means he owned or part-owned ships.

[Merry]

Is Baxtergate an area in Whitby or a single street? I was just surprised that Charles was living there back around 1830 and William was there in 1871/81 too. Was Charles' wife in Baxtergate during the time William was missing?

[ElizabethHerts]

Baxtergate is one of the main streets in Whitby. There are/were a lot of little "yards" with very poor housing. Some still exist.

Charles Lamb was a Gunsmith but he also supplemented his income by having a pub.


Baines’s Directory of 1823 Whitby Professions and Trades
Miscellany of Trades
Charles Lamb, gun smith, Baxtergate

Pigot’s Directory of 1829 Whitby Professions and Trades
Taverns and Public Houses
Charles Lamb Cross Guns Baxter Gate
Miscellaneous
Charles Lamb gun maker Baxter gate

Charles Lamb
died
Sunday 3rd June 1832
at 6.45 pm
in Abchurch-lane Hospital

Buried 6th June
at St Giles London

After he died of cholera in London in 1832 Sarah tried to keep going. Three of the children, including William, were in the Workhouse in 1841.

1834 Whitby Pigot’s Directory of 1834 Professions and Trades
Taverns and Public Houses
Sarah Lamb Cross Guns Baxter Gate

1837 Poor Law Valuation of Whitby
Baxtergate
Sarah Lamb Ground-floor tenement owned by Anthony Lawson
Rat. value £1-5-0


1841 Census
HO107; 1265; Folio 25; page 12; line 13
Baxtergate Whitby
Sarah Lamb 40 N
James Frank 60 Ag Lab Y
John Frank 20 Mason Y

Some of Sarah’s children were in the Workhouse:

HO107; page 19, line 11
Whitby Union Workhouse
Sarah Lamb 10 Y
William Lamb 11 Y
Adam Lamb 9 Y

1842
Sarah Lamb married Christopher Seaman
1 November 1842 at Whitby
From this certificate we learn that Sarah’s father was Joseph Chambers and a gunsmith.

Sarah remarried in 1842.
1851 Census (30th March)
WHITBY, Yorkshire (North riding)
HO107 piece 2374 folio 386 page 13
Baxtergate Whitby
Cristopher Seaman Head Mar 56 Shoemaker Wisbeach Cambridgeshire
(Northumberland crossed out)
Sarah Wife Mar 55 Birmingham
Adam Lamb Stepson U 19 Shoemaker Yorkshire Whitby


However, Sarah died later in 1851.
Sarah Seaman Died
6 October 1851
at Baxtergate, Whitby
aged 56 years
Wife of Christopher Seaman, Shoemaker
Cause of death:
Uterine disease 2 years
Haemorrhage 6 months
Certified
Informant:
The mark of Hannah Heselton
Present at the death
Baxtergate, Whitby
Registered:
7th October 1851



Baxtergate would have been one of the main centres of trade and shops, I believe.

OH's 1st cousin once removed has recently bought a gun made by Charles Lamb. They do come on the market occasionally.

[ElizabethHerts]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ba...9!4d-0.6155074

[Merry]

Ok, so it was probably purely that the street was popular for tradesmen rather than that the Lamb family were all using the same premises?

[Merry]

Were his siblings as successful?