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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 6142 Women Shipowners in the Nineteenth Century, 1824 - 1899 614210.5255/UKDA-SN-6142-1 Doe, H., University of Exeter, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Centre for Maritime Historical Studies Helen Doe, University of Exeter. School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Centre for Maritime Historical Studies UK Data Service 08 April 2009 WOMENMERCHANT NAVYSHIPPING INDUSTRYINVESTMENT HistoryGender and gender rolesTransport and travel Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The results shed new light on women as independent economic agents and show widows, spinsters and wives actively buying and selling shares in ships. Twelve per cent of the shipping shares in the five ports were held by women. One small but significant group are the number of wives who held shares in their own names before the Married Women's Property Acts of 1871 and 1882. These data will be of use to anyone studying women investors or shipping investment in the nineteenth century. Main Topics: A study of women shipowners in five ports in England. This study forms part of research on women in the maritime industry shortly to be published by Boydell and Brewer as Enterprising women in shipping in the nineteenth century. The data on women shipowners were extracted from the shipping registers of five ports, Exeter, Fowey, King's Lynn, Whitby and Whitehaven. The study comprises 867 women, investing in 692 ships and shows the history of the transactions over time - 1377 transactions are recorded showing how the shares were acquired, from whom and whether they were purchased, inherited or mortgaged. As an individual could have several shares in different ships and one ship had up to 32 owners, the data are presented in a relational form allowing for a wide range of queries. Information on the location of the shipowners, the ships (size and fate) and the name of the master are included. England IndividualsInstitutions/organisationsSubnational Women shipowners in five English ports 1824-1899 TextNumeric Cross-sectional (one-time) study No sampling (total universe) Transcription of existing materials <img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/assets/img/logo-cc-sa.png" /></a>  The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International</a> Licence. See <restrctn> https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 6142 2024-11-28T07:27:57Z ddi:codebook:2_5