Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Hurd Thomas Hannaford T. H. H. ; captain Th. H. ; Elizabeth, née Proudfoot ? (1xxx-1xxx) at least one son in St. George's, Bermuda named Samuel Proudfoot Hurd (1793-1xxx): see http://genforum.genealogy.com/hurd/messages/1031.html 1747 in Plymouth, Devon 1823 London http://genforum.genealogy.com/hurd/messages/1031.html trained to become seaman in the Royal Navy, since 1768 learning the trade of hydrographer & surveyor under the direction of ->Samuel Holland Bahamas cartographer ->Samuel Holland aboard HMS Canceaux in the Newfoundland & Halifax station, Canada ; Lord Howe aboard Flag ship HMS Eagle ; by Lord Howe, Surveyor General to Cape Breton 1785/86 ; 1808-23: second Admiralty Hydrographer ; Royal Navy ; cartographer -> Samuel Holland ; cartographer Edward Wright ; maritime, topographical, and cartographical map-making : ink & pen drawing ; hand-colouring http://www.heritagecharts.com/mapchart.php/254/0/the_bermuda_islands_from_the_survey_of_thomes_hurd ; http://www.heritagecharts.com/mapchart.php/255/7/lt__thomas_hurd__rn DNB 28 1891 ; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) ; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere (2007: 107-9) ; Since 1787 active in Bermuda ; cf. http://www.heritagecharts.com/mapchart.php/253/0/bermuda_east_by_thomas_hurd and ..._west_... 45416303
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