While researching my great-great-grandfather, Duncan Barnes - A Newfoundlander from Harbour Grace - I came across this great register in the Ancestry.com Card Catalog called "England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921".
Initiation" was September 27, 1905. He is 42 and living at Pilley's Island (where most of his children are born). I know all of this information is accurate but I have his occupation as a "Master Mariner" in my family tree and this register lists his profession as "Trader". This gives me a little more detail about what he may have done on those ships.
The second mention of Duncan shows up on folio number 71 (2) but mentions that he " Resigned Dec 1919". In 1920 Duncan left Newfoundland with his 3rd wife Theresa and purchased a house in