The 1805 Dispatches #22.02 April 2022 4 of 6 If you are not a member, and are concerned at missing out on all the fun, please contact our Membership Secretary, who will be delighted to hear from you. Click on : Membership Secretary, The 1805 Club NON-MEMBERS TAKE ACTION NOW! Captain Peter Hore RN (Ret) – author, historian, obituarist and friend of The 1805 Club – has or some years been the organiser of an initiative called ‘Sons and Daughters of Trafalgar’. To date there are over 400 people who have laid claim to this wonderful connection in their family history, but given that there were over 21,000 known men in the Trafalgar rolls, there are undoubtedly many thousands more out there! Derek and Pamela Ayshford are the authors of ‘The Ayshford Trafalgar Roll’, which holds the names of the men who were listed on the musters of British ships on 21st October 1805. Since before 2005 Peter has been using the Roll to search out and organise the names and details of their descendants. In fact, he managed to gather 200 of them together at Portsmouth for the 200th celebrations of the Battle of Trafalgar. We are delighted to let you know that, at Peter’s request, The 1805 Club will soon be taking over full custodian-ship of this programme. More on this soon, but in the meantime, if you already know or suspect that one of your ancestors was present at Trafalgar, please contact kathy.1805club@gmail.com and we will keep you posted on the Sons and Daughters of Trafalgar project and explain how you can be involved. NB Happily, news is just in that Peter is through his major surgery and will hopefully soon be fighting fit. Image of Peter Hore taken from his website www.peterghore.co.uk SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF TRAFALGAR Remember that there is a whole treasure trove of interest on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ The1805Club/ Here is an edited transcript from the website of The National Archives (TNA) that will no doubt be of interest to many of our readers. The full website page address is: https:// www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ about/news/prize-papersresearch-portal-launched/ ‘Court records revealing the details of 1,500 ships captured during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars are now searchable online for the first time. Uploaded as part of [TNA’s] Prize Papers project, the digital copies of 55 case books relating to ships seized by the British between 1793 and 1815 will provide insight into the work of the High Court of Admiralty in London in deciding whether the captured vessel was neutral or belonged to the enemy. The new open access portal will allow researchers to search by the name of a ship, ship’s master, geographic area or date, and will include 3.5 million digital pages once the 20-year project has been completed. Since 2018, teams at TNA and the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, in Germany, have been working to catalogue the contents of 4,088 boxes, including 160,000 undelivered letters, logbooks, ships papers and bills, poems, drawings, fabrics and playing cards, confiscated from 35,000 ships during 14 wars between 1652 and 1817. The Prize Papers project is part of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, working with the German Historical Institute London, and the VZG. As of 2018, the project has been part of the Academies Programme of the German Union of the Academies of Sciences and Humanities. The papers uploaded to date are from The National Archives’ HCA 45 series and were catalogued with the help of a grant from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. To find out more about the Prize Papers, you can find a selection of TNA’s blogs here and also visit the project homepage.’ https:// www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ ANDERSON MEDAL NEW MEMBERS PRIZE PAPERS RESEARCH PORTAL The Society for Nautical Research has arranged the award of the Anderson Medal for the best maritime publication to, and a presentation by, Richard Endsor, that will take place in the Leopold Muller Lecture Theatre of the National Maritime Museum on Thursday 28th April at 5.00pm followed by a reception. The event is free to all those interested, but confirm your attendance by emailing Sally Archer, Research & Heritage Partnerships Manager, at the National Maritime Museum at sarcher@rmg.co.uk. When contacting Sally write ‘SNR Anderson Medal’ in the subject line. The good news is, The 1805 Club has had a flurry of new members and we have introduced a ‘New Members’ feature inThe Kedge Anchor. Unfortunately, as is the way with such publications, some new members failed to ‘make the cut’ as they joined after KAhad been sent for printing. What we need, is for every new member to make contact with the editor and say a few words about themselves, for inclusion in the next edition, please. ka.editor@1805club.org
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