Hello, Noticed on the last letter,mention of Sunk Island. My (I think) Great Grandfather-----George Owst was born there in 1862 but is called Suck!!!! Island. Where was this,I would be grateful of any replies. It comes under the parish of Hessle. Many thanks, J.M.C.

Sunk Island is a Crown Estate on the banks of the Humber River, Hessle is also on the banks of the Humber but is probably 20 miles further west so perhaps there is a misreading of one of the names in your info. Both places are parishes in their own right. There are some Owsts at Patrington and Winestead which border Sunk Island, in the 1851 census index. Sunk Island was an island in the Humber which through natural silting up and man made embankments eventually became joined to the shore to form a flat bleak landscape of isolated farms. Winifred Holtby described the scene in the early 20th century in her book "South Riding" " The wide Dutch landscape, haunted by larks and seabirds, roofed by immense pavilions of windy cloud; the miles of brownish purple shining mud, pocked and hummocked by water and fringed by heath like herbs; the indented banks where the high tides sucked and gurgled; the great ships gliding up to Kingsport (Hull) seen from low lying windows as though they moved across the fields; the brave infrequent flowers, the reluctant springs, the loneliness, the silence, the slow inevitable rhythm of the tides." Peter B ----- Original Message ----- From: <CharlCoom@aol.com> To: <ENG-EAST-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 17 November 2002 22:17 Subject: [ERY] Re: Sunk Island > Hello, > Noticed on the last letter,mention of Sunk Island. > My (I think) Great Grandfather-----George Owst was born there in 1862 but is > called Suck!!!! Island. > Where was this,I would be grateful of any replies. > It comes under the parish of Hessle. > Many thanks, > J.M.C. > > ______________________________

In message <63.1528cabf.2b096f81@aol.com>, CharlCoom@aol.com writes >Hello, >Noticed on the last letter,mention of Sunk Island. >My (I think) Great Grandfather-----George Owst was born there in 1862 but is >called Suck!!!! Island. >Where was this,I would be grateful of any replies. If you look at a map of Yorkshire, the coastline looks like a face, with flamborough head as the nose, and the Humber estuary as the mouth. Sunk Island is the roof of the mouth, roughly halfway between Hull and Spurn Point. John -- John Rouse, searching for PARR and TINDILL in Yorkshire.