Brixham Heritage Database
The entries below are taken from the earliest surviving
register of boys sent to the British Seamans' Orphan Boys' Home,
Brixham. The order is that of the original register. Many of the
boys entered the navy, via Greenwich Royal Hospital School,
shortened to RHS. The Museum archive includes many later
registers and record books of the Boys' Home, which are currently
on loan to the Museum. Because of the sensitivity of the subject
of orphanage, limited information only is available, and then
only to those who can establish that they or an ancestor attended
the Home. For details of our enquiry service, click here.
- EDWIN BASER OF DEVONPORT DOB 12/6/1877 ATTENDING 23/07/1888
-12/06/1891
- REGINALD JOHN WARD OF MODBURY DOB 5/6/1879 ADMITTED 11/2/1891
- CHARLES IRELAND OF IRELAND DOB 24/6/1878 ATT 7/6/1887 -
23/6/1892
- JAMES HENRY ALDRED OF BRIXHAM DOB 12/8/1881 ADM 5/01/1891
- WILLIAM HENRY TRENT OF APPLEDORE DOB 18/6/1877 ATT 29/10/1889
- 18/6/1891
- CHARLES ROBERT GIBSON OF DEVONPORT DOB 6/8/1877 ATT 17/10/1887
- 10/8/1891
- EDWARD PARKER GOURD OF EXMOUTH DOB 27/10/1880 ATTENDING 8/11/1890
- 9/5/1892
- RICHARD WILLIAM DOBNER OF PLYMOUTH DOB 17/12/1881
ADMITTED 29/3/1890
- WILLIAM COLES OF STONEHOUSE DOB 6/5/1880 ADM 22/3/1889
- CHARLES RYSDALE OF NEWPORT DOB 29/3/1881 ADM 8/1/1891
- WILLIAM ROSS OF APPLEDORE DOB 10/4/1881 ADM 29/3/1888
- HENRY JOHN HOWLETT OF STONEHOUSE DOB 7/9/1878 ATT 5/8/1890
- 30/5/1892 RHS
- WILLIAM PROWSE OF TEIGNMOUTH DOB 21/3/1881 ADMITTED 7/1/1991
- GEORGE E PEARCE OF PLYMOUTH DOB 3/8/1880 ADM 16/9/1889
- GEORGE ROSE OF APPLEDORE DOB 1/9/1880 ADM 12/1/1991
- WILLIAM PERRY OF TORPOINT DOB 23/5/1879 ADM 20/3/1888
- WILLIAM ANDREWS OF PLYMOUTH DOB 1/1/1879 ATTENDING 20/3/1888
- 23/7/1892
- ERNEST J A PERRY OF BABBACOMBE DOB 24/5/1881 ATT 16/9/1889
- 1/10/1892
- ARCHIBALD C HUMPHERSON OF DEVONPORT DOB 16/11/1880
ADMITTED 5/8/1890
- ALBERT G HUMPHERSON OF DEVONPORT DOB 27/9/1878 ATTENDING
27/2/1891 - 24/9/1892 INTO FARM SERVICE
- ALFRED CURTIS OF DEVONPORT DOB 13/10/1879 ADM 20/3/1888
- HENRY HALL OF DARTMOUTH DOB 26/7/1876 ADM 22/3/1888 IN
NAVY BY 10/1891
- ROBERT BROWN OF DATRMOUTH DOB 26/11/1879 ATT 4/1/1888 -
21/7/1892
- FREDERICK HALL OF DARTMOUTH DOB 4/7/1881 ADM 5/1/1891
- ERNEST SHEPHERD OF DEVONPORT DOB 22/3/1882 ADMITTED 16/2/1891
- FRANK JOSE OF BRIXHAM DOB 7/2/1880 ADM 3/4/1891
- HORATIO ROBERTS OF DEVONPRT DOB 1/2/1878 ATTENDING 7/1885
- 3/2/1892
- WALTER WILLIAMS OF PLYMOUTH DOB 27/12/1876 ADM 20/8/1885
APPRENTICED TO BRIXHAM TRAWLER "NEBRASKA" 5/6/1891,
FOUND A SITUATION AT TOTNES 8/9/1891
- ALFRED KEMP OF TORQUAY DOB 13/10/1877 ATT 4/4/1887 - 27/10/1891
FOUND A SITUATION IN FARM HOUSE
- HENRY LANG OF STONEHOUSE DOB 20/9/1877 ATT 22/10/1888 -
19/9/1891
