Sealy Uniacke Townsend (518)
| Date of Birth: | 1817 |
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| Date of Death: | Unknown |
| Generation: | 6th |
| Residence: | Toxteth, Liverpool |
| Father: | Thomas Townsend [509] |
| Mother: | Uniacke, Martha |
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| See Also: | Table V ; Lineage ; Ancestors' Tree ; Descendents' Tree |
Notes for Sealy Uniacke Townsend
Sealy was christened at Mallow, Co Cork on 16 May 1817.
The website Marriages at St Bride in the District of Toxteth, Liverpool records that Sealy was married on 4 February 1841. He is shown as a "full, Mariner, Bachelor, Pitt Street" Elizabeth (1) is shown as "20 years, Spinster, Pitt Street"; her father, William Dyke, was a grocer.
An entry in the London Gazette of 10 September 1847 reads - "A LIST of all the Masters and Mates in the Merchant Service, who have voluntarily passed an Examination and obtained Certificates of Qualification for the Class against each assigned, under the Regulations issued by the Board of Trade, since the 27th February last."
MASTERS.
Date. 11th August 1847
Name of Party who has received the Certificate. Sealy U. Townsend
Class of Certificate. 2nd
Place and Date of Birth. Mallow, Cork. 1818
Present or last previous Service. "Viceroy" of Dublin, 700 tons, as mate
Name of Examining Board. Trinity House,London
(1) Elizabeth was born in 1821 and died in 1843. The website Limerick Local Studies contains a newspaper cutting of obituaries in 1843. At the residence of her father, Pitt Street, Elizabeth, wife of Captain Sealy Uniacke Townsend, of The Enterprise, London.