Info on my ancestors’ professions

General:

Roots to Tip:  Working lives – occupational records

Cruise Liners

• Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNCo)
• Pacific Steam Navigation Company unofficial site: pictures of ships
• Pacific Steam Navigation Company unofficial site: Fleet history
• Merseyside Maritime Museum – Information Sheets

Customs / Water Men

• HM Waterguard

Lighthouses

• Lighthouses of Cornwall

Masons and Quarrymen

• Warwick University – Modern Records Centre

Midwifery

• The Midwives Act 1902: an historical landmark
• Call The Midwife – An Historical Perspective
• A brief history of Midwifery

Mining

• Coalmining History Research Centre: Accidents and Deaths
• Durham Mining Museum: Disaster Memorials
• Mining History Network

Navy: Merchant Navy

• The Merchant Navy Association
• Imperial War Museum: Where to find Merchant Navy Records
• The Merchant Navy, V1, by Archibald Hurd
• Durham Mining Museum: Killingworth Colliery 

Navy: Royal Navy

• National Archives: Royal Navy ratings before 1853
• Navy Records Online: About us
• Navy Records Online: home page
• Merseyside Maritime Museum – useful links
• Merchant Navy – Registers of Seamen/Service (Seamen)
• Naval Social History c1793-1920
• The National Archives: Nelson, Trafalgar
• HMS Victory
• The Age of Nelson
• BBC History: Empire and Sea Power
• Broadside: Home of Nelson’s Navy
• Nelson and his World – forum
• Admiral Lord Nelson and his Navy Fleet