Raining? No, it's your turn now, we had plenty a few weeks back. Hot humid and sunny here.
I have heard about those bride ships. In those old Cornish newspapers i was reading about the immigrant ships and how it was organised back there, and the categories of people they were looking for - I think some people turned themselves into the correct categories just to get away and have a new start, it was all a bit of an adventure back then. Also published were glowing reports of men who had got ahead and had their own land and homes, something difficult to achieve for some back home.
Robert Hugh/Hughes stayed in London, became a locksmith, married Sarah Margaret Brown 26 March 1870, had Robert William Hughes b 7 Dec 1870 (my gfather) and two daughters, Sarah A. b 1877 and Lil(l)y b 1877, am researching these girls at present,although not a priority.
Robt Wm Hughes marr Blanche Mary Cornford 29 May 1897 in London, had 6 children, of which the only son died at 9 months, one of the twins died at 3 and half. My mother was the youngest child in the family. She is the one who had the spirit, lost her first husband in artillery serving on defending London in the Blitz, then joined up herself to WRAF, served, married my father (RAAF/RAF) there and came out just after WW11, and actually she never saw any of her family in England again. Have been myself to UK and lived there lots, but never been to Cornwall so plan to do that in May this year.
