1871 look up please

[alllegs]

Indeed, that is exactly what I was thinking, although I'm now supping a large glass of vino so god knows who I'll muddle up next!  


According to FreeBMD there were no Edmund Earle's born in Sussex.... (obv it's not comprehensive but I've not got the energy to search ancestry now!) And there are lots and lots of William Harts.... 2 in the district of Lewes in 1847 and 1849

Pete - your brain hurts - imagine what mine and Liz's feel like! lol 

[lizdb]

Thanks Pete for that Edmonds snippet.

I have a john bn 1821 in Poling, who is the only J or G born around that time. He was certainly a Mariner - it seems he was the first one of the family to break the ag lab mould and go to sea. He made a career of it,  becoming a Mater Mariner and sailing all his life. (other members of the family followed him, but either drowned or returned to the land)
I have a patchy record of Johns career, and I dont think it is the one you have. 'My' john first went to sea as a boy in 1836. By 1871 he had made a lot of voyages as a Master.

But thanks for the thought!

[petmas]

I've just done the obvious and googled "Galway Lass" about 10 hits, several the same but one on the RNLI site tells a lot and another www.savebridlingtonhospital.co.uk/bridhistory/greatstorm.html gives masses including the fact that most were from Lewes & Ringmer and even the hymns sung. Pete

[lizdb]

So Hart was a married man with one child, it says.

I wonder if he had married by 1871? maybe between '71 and '75, in which case '71 will not have a mariners wife named Hart for us to look for.

[lizdb]

This looks a possible
MArriage
Jan/Feb/MAr 1873
Lewes reg distr ref 2b 239

brides on page
Charlotte Lower and Ruth Walter

[lizdb]

bother - cant find either a Ruth Hart or  Charlotte Hart as a widow in 1881 with a child. 

MAybe she (whichever she was) remarried

[alllegs]

Morning Liz,

Great idea!!

Charlotte Hart married either Benjamin Foster or Richard Smith at Lewes in June 1878.....

[lizdb]

Bit more detective work and Wow! gotit sorted!

Marriage
April/May/Jun 1873
Lewes reg distr
ref 2b 311

Charlotte Hart to either Benjamin Foster or Richard Smith

1881 census
RG11 1073 27 50
Newhaven

Benjamin Foster 33 MAriner
Charlotte wife 26
Elizabeth Hart s/dau 7
? ? ? Hart s/dau 4 bn Newhaven

The youngest child must have been born after her dad's death, I wonder if he knew Charloote was pregnant when he went on that ill fated voyage?
The name is hard to read - it looks like Azarley, is indexed as Tynsley.
'm off to look at births to try and sort it.

[alllegs]

Here she in in 1881

Benjamin Foster, head, 33, Mariner, born Hastings
Charlotte Foster, wife, 26, born Piddinghoe
Elizabeth L Hart, daughter, 7, scholar, born Newhaven
Tynsley H Hart, daughter, 4, born Newhaven