Continued from the last post. [All I can say is if I don’t get employed I shall get married — and perhaps shall if I do. If any decent lady will have me. and clean. as I heard a man say the other day —] This was also quoted in the Battersby but my transcription […]
Month: November 2021
James Fitzjames letters at the RGS, part 1
(Excerpts posted as an “educational work” in accordance with Wiley Digital Archives’ terms of service.) These excerpts are all from his letters to his friend John Barrow (son of Sir John Barrow), over a period of time spanning from 1839 on the Ganges to July 1845 at Disko on the Erebus. The very first one starts off with […]
Henry Peglar’s Beer Hall
Out of pure curiosity, I transcribed this 40-page reminiscence written by a seaman (possibly a steward)* who served on HMS Wanderer 1839-44, alongside Hodgson, Peglar, and Gibson. None of them turned up until the very last page, when the anonymous author gave the following memory of Peglar. H Peglar opened a beer house in Westminster and after […]
Lt. George Hodgson, RN
A lot of my original research began from the work of the wonderful Drac on Tumblr, who was the first to track down a veritable hoard of details about Hodgson’s family back in 2019. A recap of their amazing research: Born in 1817, youngest of 7 by 5 years. One sister predeceased his birth, another […]