This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bearse, Bears, Barss Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YOC.2ACE/860 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on Robert Barss from the Shag Harbour area. He died at sea in May of 1877 on the schooner the Codseeker. He had a daughter- my great-grandmother Jessie Ida Barss, born in 1866.