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From John:

I already have this information thanks but I need to be able to connect the shipwrecked Daniel to the apprenticed Daniel. It does look as though they are one and the same. I thought that if I found the name of the ship, I could perhaps find a crew list. There are a few mentions of Harvey in the Newcastle Courant. I wonder if, perhaps, Daniel's whaler was a converted collier?

Thanks for your interest, its good to have someone to bounce ideas off!

Ref Bland's Annals of Southport
[Annals of Southport and District - A Chronological History of North Meols By E. Bland]
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1783 A whaling ship wrecked on the coast from which one lad was saved
- Daniel Keen, aged 17. The lad stayed in Hawesside from where, on
October 8 1786 he married Susannah Rigby, and became the father of a
numerous family, whose descendants in Southport now form a large
section of the population.
--
Daniel Keen isn't in edition one but is in the second amended one published in 1903.

This is on Rootschat:

Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Volume 81 - Page 99
(Printed for the Society, 1930)
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An indenture having a purely accidental connection with North Meols
is given below. Mr. F H Cheetham conjectures that the Apprentice, Danl:
Keen,was the survivor of the wreck of a whaler, cast away on the coast in
1783; and whose sons, in all probability, were drowned in 1812 (v. Southport
Visiter, 3 Dec, 1929).
Daniel Keen, Son of William Keen, Printer, born at Kendal in ye County
of Westmoreland by his own and his parents Consent doth put himself apprentice
to Harvey Midford Jun Mariner of the County of Northumber . . .
from the Nineteenth of February 1779 for five years -- (Payment deleted) to
instruct in the art of the Seaman -- Meat, Drink Washing, the Winter excepted
when the Ship is laying up during which time & when the said Apprentice is
Lodged by his Friends shall be allowed by his said Master the sum of two
shillings and sixpence per week, and doth likewise promise to pay for the
above mentioned servitude the sum of £20 to be paid in the following manner
the first and second year the sum of £3 each, ye secound [should be third and
fourth]* and third £4 & ye fith £6 in all £20.
20 Feb. 19 Geo III.
George Benson Harvey Midforth, Junr.
James Chadwick Daniel Keen
* Endorsed over with yearly payments as above.

There's a 1748 book which he is a sponsor for:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hJwCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=%22Harvey+midforth%22&source=bl&ots=qC5q4QNmSX&sig=GSb1w4jbQCN-T3xbBd9ALw3cltk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IcQTUL_jDJSZ0QW5k4DYAg&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Harvey%20midforth%22&f=false

Thanks Maddie and Janice. I am trying to find the name of a ship - a whaler - which was wrecked off the coast of Southport in 1783. There was only one survivor, my 5x g grandfather Daniel Keen. I believe that Daniel was apprenticed to Harvey Midforth.

slightly different spelling

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First name(s): Harvey

Last name: MIDFIRTH

Date of burial 11 Dec 1792

Age at death:

Calculated year of birth: Not known

Place of burial Boldon

Dedication: St Nicholas

County: Durham

Notes:
Boldon St Nicholas:

Denomination: Anglican

Coverage 1571 - 1812

Number of entries: 2,529

Record source: National Burial Index

Data provider: Northumberland & Durham Family History Society

In the 1760s he seems to be a collier on a ship called Nelly.

(from newspaper archives at Lancashire libraries)


The Nelly seems to be a coaling ship that came into the Port of London from Newcastle.

Other ships mentioned for different years are Content and Prince William - all coaling ships.

From London Gazette 1794

ALL Persons having any Claim or Demand on the Estate
and Effects of Harvey Midforth, late of the City of
London, Master Mariner, deceased, either on his own Account,
or on Account of the Ship Commerce, are requested to send the
Particulars' thereof, with the Nature of their Sec- rities, (if any) •
to Ralph Clarke, Esqj Coal Exchange, London' or to Mr. William
Harrison, Master Mariner, Church-Street, near North
Shields, or to Mr. Thomas Kirkby, Attorney at Law, North,
Shields, Executors of the last Will and Testament of the said
Harvey Midforth; and all Persons who stood indebted to the
late Harvey Midforth are requested* to pay their respective Debts
to th'e said Ralph Clarke, or to the said Wilsiam Harrison or
Thomas Kirkby, the Executors.

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Name: Harvey Midford
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 09 Jul 1750
Baptism/Christening Place: Tynemouth, Christ Church, NHUMB, Eng.
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Father's Name: Harvey Midford
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C15597-1
System Origin: England-VR
Source Film Number: 1068652
Reference Number: 2:36LWQN1

could this be possible


Day:17

Month:Aug

Year:1724

Forenames:Harvey

Surname:MITFORTH

Fathers Forenames:Harvey

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Abode:Cul.

Place:Tynemouth

Description:Christ Church

County:Northumberland

Country:England

Checked:Y

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Record source:Northumberland and Durham Baptisms
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Looking for any information on Harvey Midforth b1723 or thereabouts and his son of the same name b1742 + or - 10 years. They lived in East Boldon, Durham and were Master Mariners/shipowners. Harvey snr married Eleanor Clarke in 1748 and jnr married Mary Burton in 1772.