A.D.M.’s
P The series of Dockyard Pay Books ,Sheernesss Extraordinary ,
run from
And
Most
of these books cover one year in four quarters.
You
can browse the catalogue on
http://www.nationalarchive.gov.ukublic Record Office ( Records information )
Leaflet No. 15
“
Dockyard employees
documents in the Public Record Office. “
HEADINGS.
Organisation before 1832.
Organisation after 1832
Records before
1832
Records after 1832 ;salaries
Dockyard and Naval
Establishments (Worldwide) from circa 18th century
Victualling Yards and Establishments
These are the
records that follow a
Dockyard shipwright throughout his working life and
when he moves to another Dockyard, Here are some of the Penney details we
have found in them.
ADM 11 Shipwrights
to the Navy a Ships Carpenters
ADM 106/3625 SHEERNESS
John Penney ,entered June 15th 1799 , 36 years , shipwright, 7 years service
after apprenticeship ,16 years including apprenticeship , married 3
children,
apprenticed at Deptford 5'
9" tall dark complexion ,living in Sheerness.
ADM 42/ 169
ADM 42/1871 WOOLWICH Paybooks for1724
ADM 42/ 1242 PORTSMOUTH Paybooks for 1724
ADM 106/ 2992 DEPFORD General Desciption
Book 1791
John Penney aged 24 shipwright discharged March 2nd 1791 request to go as a
carpenter on the -------, to East Indies , his father is ------, not married,
entered
John Penney servant of John Penney Quarterman, aged
15 entered
.not married, 4' 11" from Deptford Parish.
William Penney age 15 entered dec 27th 1784 was
refused not bein g of
age.single 4'-10" tall
ADM 106/ 3006 DISMISSALS. Thomas Penney age 21 ,5'-5"
tall, pale, labourer,
dismissed
ADM 106/2993 General Description book 1791
James Penney aged 16 , servant to his father, entered
ADM 106/2983
Description Book Sheerness
1796
1st quarter.
Thomas Penney aged 29, Quaterman, entered
John in Guzz
Working on the marriage certificate dates I think you ought to start your
search in the ADM files coving that period, so I suggest you start looking
at>>>
ADM 184/38 thru 41 Discharge Books 1784 to 1892
ADM 184/42 Disposal Books 1788 to 1897
ADM 184/1 thru 14 Order Books 1760 to 1881
ADM 158/207 thru 283 Description Books
There will be quite a bit of reading but I think perhaps start with ADM 184/42
disposal book as I would hope that will show if he was sent to civvy street or a ship, the other is ADM 184/38-41 which
might also show his posting
64 Company was mainly a Plymouth Division company although in the mid 1800's it
was transferred to Woolwich and Chatham Divisions
If you are not list at PRO it will need to take some good identity to get a
readers ticket
Have you any objection to my putting his name on the database
Good luck
Roger
Royal Marines
Bob, My family worked in
pay books are at
184; the latest 1828/9 = ADM 42 284. The pay books include Shipwrights,
Carpenters and Joiners as well as Clerks, Brickies,
et al. ADM 42 covers all
the Royal Yards, Ordinary ie crews of ships laid up
and Extra-ordinary, ie
those working ashore. ADM 106 2975 gives outline of service of Artificers at
Chatham and ADM 106 2980 of
constitutres an Artificer but it includes
shipwrights. My 1st cousin 5x
removed was a midshipman on Victory in 1782 and on Thursday 7th November
1805 as Lieutenant in command of Pearl Slop Ship, "Answered signal for all
Lieutenants at the setting of the Watch fired a feu
de Joy per Order in
Honour of the Great & Glorious Victory obtained
by his Majs Fleet under the
Command for the ever to be commented Lord Viscount Nelson & Bronte off
Cadiz
on the 21st Ult over the Combined Fleets of France
and Spain.".