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    1. SMUGGLERS
    2. Well This is how it Appears too me. Grandmothers Family George Head born abt 1814 in a small saxon village south of Wincanton. George entered the Royal Artillery Corp at Woolwich.He became a Wheelwright. He met Mary Ann unk surname.married They moved to Christchurch.Had three son's.No Daughters.? The 1841 census, states, George and John Head, married, unknown women,one was at the Ship in Distress and the other brother at the Salisbury Arms.working for Smugglers.? Well ! Wheelwrights made or fixed wagon wheels.? Wagon's were used to transport casks of Brandy smuggled in.YEA! The road too Burton. went north to Ringwood for distribution.The third brother,Tom Head married the Butcher's Daughter.Martha Pitt.[Robert and Charlotte nee Breaker,Pitt ] Was.?. Tom as bad as the other two brothers.?.Time will tell.!.He moved to Burton, where my grandmother Lily May Head was born abt 1884.In 1891, Tom moved too Milbrook in Southampton.Tom's daughter marries a Mariner who's family is one from the Channel Islands where smuggled Brandy origionate from.The other is alledged to origionate from an abducted Bengali Prince,mariner possibly slaver.from Falmouth,Cornwall.area. So this is in itself a tale.of Southern England. From the Severn to Woolwich.throw in the Channel Islands, South Africa. NFLD,Port-Au-Prince,Haiti.and Prince Edward Island. I would be most interested in any John Mullet married to a Maria Richards.They claimed too be from Mintre Magna,Dorset.this would be just after 1820. It won't be long before a web site will be needed. keep on-keeping on-never quit. Roger

    04/22/2005 01:03:12