This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: dowsett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5538/DUT.2ACEB/21.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Steve, I think it was Curtis. It is all becoming foggy as I learnt from a relative that my grandmother and grandfather did not marry until my mother was around 5 which I thought was unusual in the 1920s/30s. I remember her saying her first husband was a sailor and had drowned falling between the ship and the harbour and she had married my granddad who was also a sailor and was his best friend.