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Joseph Dayman

1818–68

Naval officer. Employed in hydrography. Mate on HMS Erebus, 1839–43. Lieutenant-commander of HMS Cyclops, 1857. Made commander, 1858.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/63/108/42)

L. S. Dawson 1885, 1: 69–70

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 15 January 2018)

England, select births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 15 January 2018)

Navy list 1860

Bibliography

Dawson, Llewellyn Styles. 1885. Memoirs of hydrography including brief biographies of the principal officers who have served in HM naval surveying service between the years 1750 and 1885. 2 pts. Eastbourne: Henry W. Keay. [Facsimile reprint, London: Cornmarket Press, 1969.]

Navy list: The navy list. London: John Murray; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1815–1900.

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