Lady Shipowners of Whitby

Women’s names listed as holding one or more 64^th shares in Whitby registered ships; taken from “Turnbull’s Shipping Register and British & Foreign Maritime Advertiser” of 1875. This was the 26^th year of publication of this listing ships registered at the ports of North East England and at a number of Scottish ports.

Women’s names in the Whitby Listings.

Ellen BROWN	Staithes	Mary CLARKE	Pickering
Mary Arm COLE	Staithes	Sarah HALDER	Hutton Buscel
Jane HUNTON	Whitby	Eliza M. MARWOOD	Whitby
Mary NESFIELD	Whitby	Emily S.M. PEAT	Nott’ham
Hannah ROTHWELL	R.H. Bay	Jane SCOTT	Whitby
Martha STEPHENSON	Whitby	Emma A. TURNBULL	Whitby
Mary USHERWOOD	Highbury	Elizabeth WILKINSON	Whitby
Mary Clark	Whitby	Eleanor COLE	Whitby
Mary Arm ELDER	Whitby	Arm HALL	R.H.Bay
Jane JACKSON	Whitby	Emily W. MARWOOD	Whitby
Sarah NESFIELD	Barnes SRY	Eleanor RICKINSON	Whitby
Sarah SANDERSON	Staithes	Emily Smales	Whitby
*Ann THOMAS	York	Mary TURNBULL	Whitby
Sarah WEIGHILL	Whitby	Hannah WOOD	Whitby
Mary CLARK	Scarboro’	Elizabeth COLE	Staithes
Mary Arm FARMS	Runswick	Mercy HARRISON	R.H. Bay
Mary Ann LEADLEY	Scarboro’	Margaret A. MARWOOD	Whitby
Ann PEARSON	Whitby	Mary ROGERS	Robin H. Bay
Anne E. SCOTT	Whitby	Dorothy SMITH	Runswick
Alice TROUSDALE	Kirby Moorside	Eliza J. USHERWOOD	Highbury
Arm WESTGARTH	Whitby	Elizabeth WRIGHT	Whitby

* This lady shows as part owner, with Robert Harrowing, of five ships. She holds either half or three quarters of the 64ths shares in these vessels, which must have represented a substantial investment. Robert Harrowing held the remainder in each case.

Some of the names, such as Turnbull, Scott, Marwood and Smales, are those of established Whitby shipowners. The Limited Companies of Turnbull Scott & Co.; Harrowing & Co. and Rowland & Marwood followed a little later in the century.