Selected Sources

Crew Agreements:

Armadale, ON 93372, 1902.

Birdie, ON 48213, 1866.

Brio, ON 97966, 1908.

Clarence, ON 20848, 1863.

Dennis Horton, ON 38187, 1866.

Earnmoor, ON 92856, 1889.

Julia Blake, ON 59410, 1872.

Juno, ON 48477, 1873.

Torrisdale, ON 99828, 1903.

Archival Sources:

A Chronological History of the RGSS (1835-1930). History of the Seamen’s Registry, 1702-1905. MHA, BT 167/23, Micro: 1-3-2-2. Census of England and Wales, 1911. "William Cram, Northumberland." The 1911 Census of England and Wales. http://www.1911census.co.uk/search/results4.aspx?x=1392940427 (Accessed November 25, 2011).

Craig, Robin. Notes for the Workshop Series held at the MHA, September, 1988. R95-13 MHA.

Maritime History Group. Dean of Arts Box 19. MHA. Not yet accessioned.

———. Dean of Arts Box 19, 1972-1976. MHA. Not yet accessioned.

———. 1971-1986. History Box 9, MHA.

———. Minutes of Meetings. MHA.

———. Faculty of Arts, 1971-1976, President’s Office A-4. MHA.

Public Record Office [National Archives]. Notes on the Crew Lists. Society of Archivists (UK). Records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. MF-009, MHA.

Society of Archivists. Re. Shipping Records. Society of Archivists (UK). Records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. MF-009, MHA.

Books:

Anon. Manual of Seamanship. Vol. 2. London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1923.

Abbott, Charles. A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen: In Four Parts. London: Reed & Hunter; J. Butterworth, 1812.

Alexander, David. A Description of Indexing Procedures for the ‘Agreement on Account of Crew.’ St. John’s: Maritime History Group, 1973.

Alexander, David. "Literacy Among Canadian and Foreign Seamen, 1863-1899." In Working Men Who Got Wet: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, July 24-July 26, 1980, edited by Rosemary Ommer and Gerald Panting, 1-33. St. John's: Maritime History Group, Memorial University, 1980.

Bullen, Frank Thomas. The Men of the Merchant Service, Being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine for Longshore Readers. Stanfordville & New York: Earl E. Coleman, 1979.

Burton, Valerie. "A Floating Population: Vessel Enumeration Returns, 1851-1921." Local Population Studies 38 (Spring 1987): 36-43.

Burton, V. C. "Counting Seafarers: The Published Records of the Registry of British Seamen, 1849-1913." Mariner's Mirror 71, no. 3 (August 1985): 305-320. Historical Abstracts, EBSCOhost (accessed May 14, 2010).

Cooper, Malcolm. "Maritime Labour and Crew List Analysis: Problems, Prospects and Methodologies" in Labour\le Travail, XXIII (Spring 1989), 179-94.

Cox, Nicholas. "The Records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen." Maritime History 2 (1972), 168-88.

Great Britain. Seafarers and Their Ships; The Story of a Century of Progress in the Safety of Ships and the Well-Being of Seamen. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1955.

Kemp, Peter, ed. The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. London: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Matthews, Keith. “Crew Lists, Agreements, and Official Logs of the British Empire, 1863-1913.” Business History, xvi, no. 1(1974): 78-80.

M’Culloch, John Ramsay. A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Edited by Hugh G. Reid. Revised. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1871.

Parkhurst, P. G. Ships of Peace, A Record of Some of the Problems Which Came Before the Board of Trade in Connection with the British Mercantile Marine, from Early Days to the Year 1885. New Malden: Parkhurst, 1962.

Prouty, Roger. The Transformation of the Board of Trade, 1830-1855. London: Heinemann, 1957.

Roger, N.A.M. Naval Records for Genealogists. London: Public Record Office, 1984.

Watts, Christopher T., and Michael J. Watts. My Ancestor Was a Merchant Seaman: How Can I Find Out More About Him? London: Society of Genealogists, 2008.