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Mmmmm... was trying to figure it out who "Smash Adams" was, thinking that you might be based in UK - but of course - my sister's daughter!  How could I miss it?  Silly me.

Thanks for the offer of material on the Doughtys as this would be welcome especially since I have heaps of material on the Tiddy's of Cornwall.  Just use my usual email address.

I was looking up my Irish family tree and noticed this post re: Mona Doughty.  Mona was my paternal grandmother and she was married to Arthur Cornwallis Tiddy (d 1951).  They lived in Cape Town (South Africa) and Mona died in 1973.  Mona and Arthur had three children - Claude Julian (my father, d. 1986); Alastair James (Missing is action in RAF operations in Burma in 1944) and Elizabeth, who still lives in Cape Town.
Mona used to manage an art gallery in Cape Town and was instrumental in establishing the artist Vladimir Tretchikoff.
As a child, I recall Mona talking of her father, James Randall Doughty and her mother, who was also an accomplished mariner.  James owned two 4-masted Barques - the Jeannie Woodside and the Beecholm and used to carry coal out of Barry, Wales.  On one voyage, the ship officers and crew were very ill (not sure of the ailment), but Mary took over command from James and brought the ship back without incident.  The very grateful Lloyds insurers presented her with a certificate of appreciation, which she tore up in disgust.  She sounded quite a feisty lady who took no nonsense from anyone!  When I was in ships, I used the sextant belonging to James and it is still in the family with my aunt Elizabeth, as are two paintings of the Jeannie Woodside and Beecholm.