Thomas Pallant Simpson

Thomas Pallant SIMPSON Master's Certificate of Service number 52.914 "Has been employed in the capacities of Seaman Mate and Master 12 years in the British Merchant Service in the Coasting & Foreign trades. Bearers name [signed by Thomas] Granted by the Register General of Seamen, London. By order of the Board of Trade Issued at Lowescroft [?] this 5th day of Jan 1855 [Number of register ticket 54,607] [source: Ancestry.com - National Maritime Museum Great Britain, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927 ] http://www.flickr.com/photos/porkynz/4372377424/

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/topics.census.uk.1871/181.1/mb.ashx 1871 in London in the civil parish of Hammersmith (St Paul), district 13, page 36, no. 198. They are enumerated as follows:

Thomas Simpson, 45, Master Mariner Eliza Simpson, wife, 44, Chandler Mary A. Simpson, daur, 16 William H. Simpson, son, 14, Scholar Sidney Simpson, son, 9, Scholar Jonathan Dobson, visitor, unm, 50, Master Mariner

Everyone in the family is listed as born in Southwold, Suffolk. The visitor was born elsewhere.