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Could someone please translate/confirm the details of Seaman #7472 Simon Healy’s merchant navy voyages below for me?
For example, in 1837 the notation N.York…does that actually mean New York or...

Thank you, Janet. I do not believe children Robert and William are my kin if their mother's maiden name is Welsch. (Yes to N = Native).

Lindsay definitely is related because the Low St address is...

Thanks for your reply. Yes 1841 census shows Wm and Eliz born in county Durham. On to GENUKI...there are a lot of Durham registers!

My 3xG GF William Todd is in the 1841 census at Spring Garden Lane, Sunderland, age 60, as a waterman. The parish record of his son Lindsay Todd's baptism gives William's occupation as keelman.
The...

OK, so nix to Gertrude Agnes, but I still have Gertrude Annie in play.

However! not the birth certificate but on JHK's own signature on the marriage certificate I can see where the misspelling may have gone astray...

OMG! You are a demolition expert extraordinaire!! According to family info: Yes, to working on Newcastle Chronicle. Yes, to working for the Calcutta Statesman. Is above info on Ancestry? Would...

Indeed! John Kelly policeman/pub manager is my g-grandfather for sure. I'm now on the census trail in Leicester for John Kelly sr. engineer (or his son), but these Kelly types are elusive!

John Hassock Kelly visited his brother in Gosforth about 1935-36.
The South African death notice has John Hassold Kelly down as a civil engineer.
If we are indeed related, the 1939 register shows...

hmm, possibly, but I do have a copy of his birth certificate and it seems clear enough... If these two men are one and the same, I guess the middle name simply morphed somehow in various...

Oh so close. My g-uncle John HassoCK Kelly was a [printing] engineer but the marriage cert lists his father John Kelly as an engineer too, and my g-grandfather was a retired policeman at this point...

Wow, thanks for this! I will follow up in case this JHK is my guy. I have a FMP subscription. The earlier arrival date in South Africa differs from family lore, but sometimes that is sketchy as we...

Yes, this is my great-aunt Winnie and her three daughters. Right, Mary Ellen not with any of her siblings in 1939.
Thanks Christina for following up that lead though.

Oh yes, evidently Mary Ellen was quite the popular name. Pretty sure mine did not marry Arthur Chapman in 1902, for example, as she would have been only 15 years old.
Potentially Nellie's daughters...

Joined today and here is my first request for assistance to find a marriage record(s) and children.

Great-aunt Mary Ellen (Nellie) Kelly was born 5 Dec 1886, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Baptized 9...