The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.4 | March 2022

Member’s article

The ‘finds’ made through the Shoreham by Sea website were wonderful! Gaps were filled and speculation turned into fact. ‘Icing on the cake’ doesn’t touch the excitement and pleasure we experienced! William Barrett is our 2nd great granduncle, (‘Ancestry speak!’) and a brother in law to our great great grandfather, Thomas Redding. Our appreciation and gratitude goes to all those at shorehambysea.com Congratulations on

The ‘Melancholy Catastrophe’ in the Bucks Herald

Dad’s note

gathering such a mass of information and presenting it so brilliantly. Interesting, informative and user-friendly. We have been able to ‘tie up’ so many queries from the last ten years! The ‘finds’ made by Betty were instrumental to progress! Thank you, Betty. Maybe we are still looking for a Coroner’s report . . . ? We are guessing that maybe Mary Ann met William Barrett on a visit to see her niece, Mary Ann, daughter to her brother, Thomas, along the coast? And, we wonder - did she do this this travelling by sea? Judith Sexton and Frances Marshall – ‘Redding girls’ and HGS members

Sources used: Ancestry.co.uk; Find my Past;

familysearch.org.uk; Fowey local/Connor’s Ancestry Thrulines confirmed our DNA matches with Richard Barrett b1873. The National Archives: downloaded ADM174/1+ Admiralty Establishment Books; and at The National Archies - maps (1855) of coastguard stations FO 925/4060 and (1879) CUST 147/5 www.shorehambysea.com Google searches

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