To Barb Baker, I have been reading your postings for a couple of years now, and must thank you for some very interesting items. With your most recent posting about the death of Mr. Giles Redmayne of Braithy Hall, Ambleside, I feel I should make some comment. Both my wife and I are related to this gentleman by marriage; my wife, being the great-great-niece of Mr. Redmayne's daughter-in-law, Annie Salter, originally of North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. While my maternal aunt, by marriage, is a great-granddaughter of Mr. Redmayne's youngest sister, Frances Redmayne and her husband, Dr.William M. Murray. We discovered this quite by accident when we were visiting my aunt in England, when my wife happened to mention that one of her great-great- grandfather's daughters, Annie Salter, had married Mr. Redmayne's then eldest son and heir, Captain Frank Giles Redmayne, Master Mariner, on 29 Oct., 1883, after he had brought his ship into Sydney Harbour, and met Annie. After they were married he brought Annie home to England, to live at Brathy Hall, where they had two daughters, Lillian and Gladys. On hearing this story, my aunt was amazed, and stated that her own grandmother, Ethel Murray, had been born at Brathy Hall (c. 1857). As a result of this surprising coincidence I have made a study of the relationships, and have confirmed that the statements were indeed factual. Unfortunately a few years later, on 7 Dec., 1894 Captain Redmayne, while sailing from the West African coast in command of the S.S. Coban, died of a fever on board his ship. This had the result that eventually his wife, Mrs. Annie Redmayne, (nee Salter), with her two daughters, came home to live with her parents in North Sydney. Jonathan Kirton, Canada