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Trafalgar Ancestors

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Richard Bulkeley aged 18 born in America.

Ship: HMS Victory

Rating/Rank: Midshipman

 
 

Personal details

  
   

Died

29 December 1809

  
   

Mother

Jane Eleanor Bulkeley nee Alpress

 
   

Parents' date of marriage

Jamaica

 
   

Notes

Son of Richard Bulkeley of Pencombe near Bromyard, Herefordshire. His Lieutenant's passing certificate, TNA document reference, ADM 107/34 folios 295-297, states that he was baptised in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 10 October 1784 and that he was the son of Richard and Emma Bulkeley. Does not appear in the Navy List after 1810.

 
   
 

Service details

  
   

HMS Plover

16 February 1800 to 12 January 1801
Rank/rating: Boy

HMS San Josef

13 January 1801 to 10 February 1801
Rank/rating: Volunteer First Class

HMS St George

11 February 1801 to 2 July 1801
Rank/rating: Boy

3 July 1801 to 18 November 1801
Rank/rating: Volunteer First Class

HMS Mermaid

14 November 1801 to 27 July 1802
Rank/rating: Volunteer First Class

HMS Amphion

8 August 1802 to 24 January 1803
Rank/rating: Volunteer First Class

25 January 1803 to 30 July 1803
Rank/rating: Midshipman
Comments: From: Amphion

HMS Victory

Ship's pay book number: (SB 677)
31 July 1803 to 15 January 1806 (Was at Trafalgar)
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Ocean

Ship's pay book number: (SB 530)
6 February 1806 to 8 February 1806
Rank/rating: Master's Mate

HMS Blanche

Ship's pay book number: (SB 74)
23 February 1806 to 15 March 1806
Rank/rating: Midshipman

HMS Garland

Ship's pay book number: (SB 345)
14 December 1809 to 29 December 1809
Rank/rating: Lieutenant
  
   
 

Sources used

  
   

Book reference: The Men who fought with Nelson in HMS Victory at Trafalgar by Lt Cdr C P Addis (The Nelson Society, 1988)

Catalogue reference: ADM 36/15900

Catalogue reference: ADM 6/104 folio 21

Catalogue reference: ADM 107/34 folios 295-297

Book reference: The Trafalgar Roll by Colonel R.H. Mackenzie (George Allen & Company Limited).

Catalogue reference: ADM 37/827 HMS Blanche ship's muster, 1 February 1806 to 30 June 1814

Catalogue reference: ADM 37/1863 HMS Garland ship's muster, 1 January 1809 to 28 February 1810

  
 

Last updated: 11 October 2004

  
 

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