Seamen from Royal Navy ships were boarded in the 1740s with Betty Wright, a lodging-house keeper of Gosport, Hampshire. Her surviving account books together with the wills of hundreds of mariners open up a new light on the life onshore for these men, in a previously unrecorded manner, and enable lodging houses, victuallers and the families of mariners, to be brought into the wider economic and social context of sailortowns. The authors' research on London's sailortown was based on a methodology that took advantage of the increasing availability of online records, especially London's land tax and insurance records, wills and other archives. Together, they provide a basis for exploring the many ways that women coped with households and work, when their men folk were away. They also reveal the strong links between mariners and victuallers and the variety of services that the latter provided to a constantly changing international clientele.


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    Title :

    Mariners Ashore in the Eighteenth Century: The role of boarding-house keepers and victuallers


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    The mariner's mirror ; 103 , 4 ; 431


    Publication date :

    2017




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    55.86 Schiffsverkehr, Schifffahrt / 55.40 Schiffstechnik, Schiffbau
    Local classification TIB:    275/7035




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