William Henry Ash (1854 - 1855)

Born 26 Aug 1854 in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 3 May 1855 at age 0 in At Sea, near St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Biography

William Ash was born in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, England.

William was born in 1854, the son of William Ash and Charlotte Hurd.^[1] His certificate gives the birth date as 26 Aug 1854 in Buckland Monachorum, the same place his mother Charlotte was living in 1861.^[2]

On May 3rd of 1855, with his mother Charlotte, W H Ash, boarded the The Barque John at Plymouth. The immigrant ship was headed for Canada. His father was not with them and presumably had travelled ahead. Tragically the ship was crashed on the Manacles on the Cornwall coast near St Keverne late that night. William and his mother were washed overboard and drowned, along with many other passengers. They were listed among the drowned or missing in the Royal Cornwall Gazette.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: "England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth." (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 28 November 2023), database entry for ASH, WILLIAM HENRY (Mother's maiden surname: HURD). GRO Reference: 1854 S Quarter in TAVISTOCK Volume 05B Page 320.
2. ↑ Birth: England & Wales, General Register Office, "Digital copy of Birth", Tavistock Registration District, Devon. William Henry Ash, born 26 August 1854, registered by mother Charlotte Ash formerly Hurd, 25 September 1854. Copy found in Ancestry tree profile Passengers of the John, 1855.
3. ↑ Death: "Wreck of an Emigrant Ship on the Manacles," Royal Cornwall Gazette, 11 May 1855, Supplement p.9; image copy, Find My Past (https://www.findmypast.com/search-newspapers : accessed 31 January 2023), Newspapers and Periodicals Collection.