« Reply #9 on: Monday 21 September 20 14:04 BST (UK) »
I knew I'd seen Maker as a place name before, but it has taken me a while to find where. However, it does appear to be close to Cawsand, as Emma Jane Bowden (a rather distant relative) wrote the following in 1923 about her parents (Captain Richard Booth Bowden and [first name unknown] née Hicks):
I know very little of the family myself. I know that my dear father and mother were married at Maker; that as children we lived at Cawsand, where most of us children were born; leaving Cawsand we lived at Plymouth for some years, and for educational advantages we went to France, where we lived many years.
Later in the letter she said the following about her father's naval career:
He had remarkable incidents in his sailor career, one of which was that of being entrusted with the safe keeping of the French King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie Amelie, who had to fly from the French Revolution, and my dear father was charged with the care of them in the Mediterranean. Marie Amelie took a great fancy to him, always calling him son beau Capitaine her handsome Captain, and would allow no one else to escort her to table. When Louis Philippe was re-called to France he and Queen Marie Amelie went to reside at Eu, their country place in Normandy, and they invited my father to come and stay with them, but he would not, he wanted to go home.
Cornish (Devon), Bowden (Cornwall, Devon), Kitson (Devon, not North Lancashire), Karslake (Devon), Eales (Devon), Churchill (Dorset -- no known connection with Sir Winston), Duncan (Ireland), Colclough (Ireland, not Staffordshire), McMurtry (Ireland), Browning (Hampshire, Dumfries), Heberden (various), Rogers (Thurlestone, Devon)
