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Petition of William Soley, of Rotherhithe, mariner, who lost his left arm in service on board the bomb ship the Star, that he may become a pensioner of the county; with Navy offices certificate of service and certificate of baptism of William Soley at St Mary Rotherhithe. Soley claimed that after the ship's boat was cast away, he spent the night on an uninhabited island Hani-lago in the West Indies, rescued by a merchant ship which was soon after taken by a French privateer and held prisoner in

QS2/6/1724/Xms/34-6 | SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS: RECORDS.SESSIONS BUNDLES.Xmas Sessions 1724.

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Source	UK National Archives
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Surrey History Centre
Date	1724
Type	catalogue level 10
Details	search Lagos
Found at	https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/973aec84-28dc-43ed-8cd2-d3b2f65b698d
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Petition of William Soley, of Rotherhithe, mariner, who lost his left arm in service on board the bomb ship the Star, that he may become a pensioner of the county; with Navy offices certificate of service and certificate of baptism of William Soley at St Mary Rotherhithe. Soley claimed that after the ship's boat was cast away, he spent the night on an uninhabited island Hani-lago in the West Indies, rescued by a merchant ship which was soon after taken by a French privateer and held prisoner in . UK National Archives, 1724. Vero Archive, record uk-tna-discovery:973aec84-28dc-43ed-8cd2-d3b2f65b698d.