See http://www.orcaplc.com/hanover.htm for some detail of the Falmouth Lisbon Packet - and the wreck
John
> from: Pearce Frank Martin <[log in to unmask]>
> date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:05:13
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> subject: Re: Staffordshire to Spain - Miner's Migration
>
> A further thought on the Staffordshire - Spain movement. The transport of
> clay from Cornwall to the potteries passed, in part, via Runcorne and thence
> by canal to the Stoke area. Our ancestors were often more sophisticated, in
> distribution terms, than we realised. Sailings from Falmouth and Plymouth
> carried world wide trade and Portugal and Cadiz were merely a step away.
>
> Martin
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