Riddle family of Northumberland

This page summarises records created by this Family

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Date:	1831-1891
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F320671 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F12761 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1831-1891: papers of the Riddle family, mostly rel to Edward Riddle (1788-1854), mathematician and astronomer, his son John Riddle (1816-1862), headmaster of Greenwich Hospital schools, and Edward Riddle (1845-1907), engineer, incl letters (140) from Edward Riddle (1845-1907) to his wife, Charlotte Jane (Charley) Lucas, sent during numerous cable laying expeditions for which he was often the engineer in charge, 1870-1891, which provide details of life on board ship and ashore in foreign places, and rare first-hand accounts of cable laying operations, in locations incl Singapore, Shanghai, Lisbon, Venice, Suez, Manila and Malta	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	REG23/000002 (Uncatalogued)	See Annual Return 2023