she wants to know more about her seafaring ancestors.
she's come to the Discovery Museum in Newcastle to meet Carolyn ball who runs
the archives
hi sir I was wondering if you could help me abate rocket rife and I brought over
this family tree which is basically the moment all I have okay and I was looking
through it all but I'm really focused and want to know more about and these
three Mariners up here okay John woods quite an unusual source name
so what we found is what's called a Mariners ticket she got here just what
they would need to go to see me so I just take it very carefully after that
for you and if you want to have a look so it
says John Wood Lane born North Shields 1826 30th of January and it looks as
though he went to sea as a Mariners apprentice how old was he he was 1845 so
he was 19 oh wow super young five foot six it
wasn't particularly tall something changed there than grown her yep
fair complexion marks on person cut on forehead well that's his signature
yeah this is what allowed him to to go on board ship and to actually sail
around the world it was his permit if you like to work
that's crazy to think that that I'm holding it and he used to hold it yeah
he's a nurse yeah and it would be a really important
document for him as well so it's crucial that he gives you the chance
Cheryl's four-times-great-grandfather John Wood Lane started work as an
apprentice Mariner in the 1840s by this time Britain was a powerful seafaring
nation and ruled an empire that stretched from North America to India
trade was its lifeblood and Mariners like John in Britain's expanding
merchant service were crucial to transporting goods and people across the
world it was a career that offered adventure and opportunity we did find
something else about John Woodley right so wondered whether you would have liked
to have a look at that has lost you okay I'm not going to tell you what this is
perhaps you'd like to open it and have a look that's him that's him
Wow and is that Caroline with that let's go like he's amazing he's so handsome
this is quite an unusual pose for a photograph
yeah if you look you would usually expect Victorians to be quite formal in
a photograph look won't we look quite relaxing and see she's she's touching
his thigh yeah and he's got a hand his hand on her shoulder know it's probably
not their wedding photograph they were married before this type of photograph
was developed but there is something special about it
you just got like a real sense of almost like they were crazy about each other
yeah just look like it wasn't yeah they get a real sense of affection Ickes
being protective and she's being I've never seen her on so informal he's so
cool so head of the same play quite a few centuries yeah that's all right
I'd almost don't want to give you a thought I'm gonna have to take it back
I'm afraid but because it's such a special thing we thought you might want
to take a copy of it away with you wow thank you so much
John and Caroline were married in 18-49 in North Shields Cheryl wants to know
more about their life there it's obviously we've worked out that John
Wood Lane was in North Shields so the obvious thing to look out with the 1851
census and this is the one for for North Shields which includes currently wholly
yeah that's Henry that's her he lived it too
Gibson bump and then Mary Jane Mary Jane daughter one there's somebody missing
John John she's the head of the family but doesn't
say if she was widowed maybe users see perhaps she was it see I hope so
so everything points back to North shoes my guess that's where I've got a goal
next I think so
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