good stuff! I really enjoyed reading it. I think James Gore was in a lot of trips and ranks!

Clare, there were no women amongst the crew on any of Cook's 3 voyages of exploration. However, there nearly was a woman on his second voyage. Joseph Banks had arranged for a lady to meet him at Madeira, on the outward voyage. The woman dressed as a young man, but did not fool anybody. By the time that Resolution arrived, far later than Banks had told her to expect him, the woman had given up waiting and returned to England. Which was just as well as Banks had withdrawn from the voyage before it departed.

Mary, you are so right. All of Cook's crews were very cosmopolitan with people from a range of countries. Whilst the majority of his crew were English, on Endeavour he had men from Scotland Ireland and Wales, plus an Italian, one from Brazil and one from New York. When Cook was referring to his crew he called them "the people".

Do you happen to know (from the logs or other sources) whether there were any women on any of these voyages?

People keep referring to the 'English" when they mention Captain Cook & his crew arriving in Australia but were some crew members Scottish, Welsh or Irish, if so, shouldn't the term 'British' be used instead of English?

Annie, I tried Googling for the name "Cutler Green" and came up with a father and son of the same name living in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK in the 1770s. But he was not a hydropgrapher.

Annie, thank you for your interesting enquiry. The term Hydrographer was more commonly used in the 19th century than the 18th century. Charles Green family history is pretty well known, and I know of no reason why he should have been nicknamed "Cutler". Such names are usually associated with an ancestor's surname. Sorry that I cannot confirm a connection with Captain James Cook, but there were many ship's captains named Cook, so maybe your Mr Green sailed under one of them?

Family history memory says that a Cutler Green was Hydrographer on Cook's 1st voyage . I have found Charles Green the Astronomer, there but noticed that no title space for any 'hydrographers' are named on any of Cooke's voyages anyway? A family member had his watch and sea trunk, (wherabouts unknown now sadly) Do you think that Cutler may have been Charles' nickname? Thank you.

David,
Take a look on our website at page https://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/first-voyage
Scroll down to Samuel Evans name, and click on icon for his biographical details

Can you give me any additional information on Samuel Evans from the first voyage?