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New York, U.S., Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989
Citizenship records
Name David M Dunbar

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Passenger lists
Name David M. Dunbar

New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943
Citizenship Record
Name David M Dunbar

First name(s) David
Bride's father's name Thomas Fairbrother
Last name Dunbar
City or town Chester
Marriage year 1878
County Cheshire
Marriage date 02 Sep 1878
Country England
Marriage place Chester
Reference item 3 p 185
Parish St. Mary's-On-The-Hill
Record set Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Parish Marriages 1538-1910
Spouse's first name(s) Martha
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Spouse's last name Fairbrother
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Spouse's age 19y
Collections from England, Great Britain


He was of full age, a musician residing at Overleigh, father David was a seaman.

Re your last post, Jink20 -

There are no David M Dunbars on any of those particular lists.


New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943

Several David Dunbars with no middle initial, on that list.
The earliest was 1868 (or 1858, depending on which page of the record you look at) with no identifying detail.



Re U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s -

Only two David Dunbars listed, with no middle initial or age, and no info other than year of arrival - 1856 and 1864, both arriving at Philadelphia.


Re : New York, U.S., Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989

Only one David Dunbar, no middle initial.
He's the same one as mentioned above, petition date 1868.
He was British, a gardener, living in Hastings, NY.
Looking at censuses and other records, that man married Hepburn Skinner in Penicuik in October 1854, they emigrated Oct/Nov 1854 , and they had several children.

FMP results for D* Dunbar in Britain, Merchant Seamen, 1835-1857

First name(s)Last name Birth year Birth place Birth county/country Series Piece

David Dunbar — Montrose Forfarshire BT114 7
David Dunbar— Larne Antrim BT114 7
David Dunbar—Pitsligo— BT114 7
David Dunbar—Antrim -Antrim BT114 7
David Dunbar—Donaghadee -Down BT113 254
David Dunbar 1800 Pitsligo Aberdeenshire BT113 128
David Dunbar 1830 Larne Antrim BT113 28

The National Archives' catalogue
BT - Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
Division within BT - Records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and successor

Register of Seamen’s Tickets, 1845-1854 – the originals are in series BT 113 (a surname index to which is in BT 114 – though any ticket numbers above 546,00 in the indexes do not appear in the registers). See Appendix 4 for an example of a typical register entry from 1845-1854. There do not seem to be any ‘reported voyages’ in BT 113 for the years 1849, 1850 and 1854.

Register of Seamen Series III, 1853-1857 – the originals are in series BT 116. See Appendix 5 for an example of a typical register entry from 1853-1857.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C478

Darren John- You will need to research this one for yourself

Royal Museum Greenwich website

Registrar General Of Shipping And Seamen, Agreements, Crew Lists And Official Logs (Manuscript)
1865
RSS/CL/1865/1377

"showing 1 archive results for 'RSS/CL/1865/1377'
17329 - Driver
Please note that not every crew list has survived within the quoted ship number range so we cannot guarantee the list for the ship you require will be present (please see research guide C1)."

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/archive/rmgc-object-612457

Has any of the in-depth research on this thread brought the OP any nearer to finding the names of David M’s parents?

Just found this, may be useful in the future

CLIP - the Crew List Index Project
"CLIP is a not-for-profit volunteer project, set up to assist research into the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th and early 20th century.

The CLIP site provides information and data about the records of British merchant seafarers, mainly from 1863 to 1913.
The site also provides information and data about the records of British merchant shipping with records of every British registered ship from 1855 to the 1950s"

ErikaH - the answer is "no".

ErikaH

No.

But, it must surely must have helped eliminate a few possibilties
I had hoped that perhaps by providing information regarding CLIPs,RMG there could be useful information contained within. ie Wills NOK etc
And there is always the National Archives

Other queries bouncing around in my head included
a. Could David M Dunbar have been born in Scotland, Ireland or USA,? ( but I would have thought FMP/Ancestry/Genes would have found something)

b.Patronym/Matronym - Marion as middle name, was he named after a GM/GF etc ?

c.soundlike middle name transcribed incorrectly ie Merrion, Merion etc ?

Again I thought one of the big databases would have turned something up...........

There's no record of any David M Dunbar being baptised in Scotland , per SP or any other site - but of course that doesn't mean he couldn't have been born in Scotland.


The David M Dunbar on the NY City Directory was still listed in 1858, so presumably not the right man unless the list wasn't updated often.

thanks everyone, been busy so just seen everyone's messages, some messages that i have read they are his son who was born in 1856 in new york, the information she has is David Marion Dunbar born in 1807/1812 which one we are not sure, he emigrated to new york in 1836 with his then wife harriet ruffel, he worked on the clipper ships as first officer but that went down at sea in the atlantic in 1856 thats when his son David Dunbar was born who eventually moved to chester, cheshire his wife was martha fairbrother , his first wife was named mary ann spears.