William Gawith's Note Books

These pages are transcripts of two notebooks owned by William Gawith, a shipping agent at Barrow-in-Furness. They list over 700 sailing ships which departed Barrow in the period from 1856 to 1872.
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Notebook1	Jan-Jun.1856	Jul-Dec.1856	Jan-Jun.1857	Jul-Dec.1857	1858	1859	1860	Misc. 1861-63	Misc. 1864-65
Notebook 2	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	Green, Chaundy	Kennedy	Misc. 1863-72

Arrived	Vessel	of	Tons Reg	Tons loaded	To	Captain	Sailed	Comments
13/04/1860	Leven	Fleetwood		70	Runcorn	Robert Hunter	14/04/1860
30/04/1860	Sir Robert Peel	Preston		66	Runcorn	John Iddon	30/04/1860
10/05/1860	Diamond	Preston		62	Runcorn	Thomas Fairclough	11/05/1860
16/05/1860	Mary Jane	Preston		73	Runcorn	Thomas Latham	16/05/1860	LC 27-16
16/05/1860	Jenny	Liverpool		73	Runcorn	Henry Carrington	17/05/1860	LC 21-19
18/05/1860	Sir Robert Peel	Preston		64	Runcorn	John Iddon	19/05/1860	LC 26-13
22/05/1860	Sprightly	Preston		72	Runcorn	James Iddon	24/05/1860	LC 26-7
01/06/1860	Henry & Ellen	Preston		98	Runcorn	James Taylor	11/05/1860	LC 41-3
08/06/1860	Pheasant	Preston		85	Runcorn	Pearson R Sumner	01/06/1860	LC 37-7
09/06/1860	Sprightly	Preston		72	Runcorn	James Iddon	08/06/1860	LC 32-6
12/06/1860	Henry & Ellen	Preston		98	Runcorn	James Taylor	09/06/1860	LC 49-8
16/06/1860	Mary Jane	Preston		72	Runcorn	John Latham	15/06/1860	LC 30-0
18/06/1860	Diamond	Preston		62	Runcorn	Thomas Fairclough	22/06/1860	LC 50-19
28/06/1860	Sir Robert Peel	Preston		66	Runcorn	John Iddon	28/06/1860	LC 61-4
03/07/1860	Emma	Preston		52	Runcorn	Richard Halsall	04/07/1860	LC 47-14
11/07/1860	Mark	Dumfries		84	Runcorn	John Campbell	13/07/1860	all LC
15/07/1860	Lord Stanley	Preston		76	Runcorn	William Gore	17/07/1860
27/07/1860	Lord Stanley	Preston		76	Runcorn	William Gore	31/07/1860	LC 41-18
06/08/1860	Lady of Lune	Preston		75	Runcorn	John Latham	08/08/1860	LC 44-2
08/09/1860	Brilliant Star	Fleetwood		98	Runcorn	John Rawcliffe	08/09/1860	LC 46-13
18/09/1860	Chance	Preston		70	Ellesmere	John Bamber	19/09/1860	LC 36-14 (A Brogden)
09/10/1860	Sprightly	Preston		70	Ellesmere	James Iddon	09/10/1860	LC 39-2 (Shelley)
09/10/1860	Diamond	Preston		62	Runcorn	Thomas Fairclough	10/10/1860	LC bl 50-9 (Bradley)
13/10/1860	Robert Marsden	Preston		75	Runcorn	James Rawlinson	22/10/1860	LC bl 73-14
17/10/1860	Brilliant Star	Fleetwood		95	Runcorn	John Rawcliffe	25/10/1860	LC bl 68-2
27/12/1860	Dotty	Fleetwood		65	Ellesmere	Robert Hea	28/12/1860	(Crook)pud (Shelley)

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