John Stockham "Thunderer"

[Paul Davies]

Have traced his link to my wife's family...the Stockhams.
has anyone the same or similar ierest in John Stockham?
There was aFrank Stocham who erecieved the Medal of Honour in the First WW. He was an American Marine. Possible that his family came from Monmouthshire
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Paul Davies

[alexlitandem]

Paul,

What exactly are you trying to establish or check - or to learn more about - relating your wife's most illustrious forebear?

[For the info of anyone not immediately familiar with Thunderer :

HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at the Wells brother's shipyard at Deptford and launched on 13 November 1783.

After completion, she was laid up until 1792, when she underwent a "Middling Repair" to bring her into service in 1793.

In 1794 she fought at the Glorious First of June under Captain Albemarle Bertie, and from 1796 to 1801 served in the West Indies, under a succession of captains.

Recommissioned in 1803, in 1805 Thunderer fought in Admiral Calder's action at Finisterre, and later that year she fought at the Battle of
Trafalgar under the command of her First Lieutenant John Stockham, as her Captain, William Lechmore, had returned to England to attend a court martial as a witness at the time of the battle.

The surgeon on board was Scotsman James Marr Brydone, who was the first to sight the French fleet. Thunderer signaled the Victory and three minutes later battle orders were signalled to the British fleet beginning the Battle of Trafalgar.

In 1807, Thunderer served in the Dardanelles as part of a squadron under Admiral Sir John Duckworth and was badly damaged when the squadron withdrew from the area.

She was decommissioned in November 1808 and broken up in March 1814.]

Paul,

Do you have any `mementoes' of John S? Letters etc.,?

Would love to hear more and to learn more about what you may be trying to achieve / discover.