The Holt Family & Whitby Maritime History


Welcome to the Stephen Baines website. The history of Whitby in Georgian times has been a source of huge fascination for me for many years, and I have contributed two chapters to the recently-published book "The General Carleton Shipwreck, 1785". For details of this publication, click on the picture below.

General Carleton Shipwreck 1785


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If you have any information or queries about anything on this site, please feel free to contact me.

My name should really be Stephen Holt.  If you want to know why the family is now called Baines - click onto Family History.