Hi, everybody Am I still onlist? (suddenly realising I've not heard recently - probably my mistake ?? Geoff ex Gt Yarmouth > From: ovington1@sky.com > To: mariners-l@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 10:37:19 +0100 > Subject: [MAR] Thomas Penny FILL Master mariner wrecked 1839 Holland > > Hi all > > Recently there was an enquiry regarding Thomas Penny FILL one of many FILL mariners of Great > Yarmouth > > He was shipwrecked of the Dutch coast in 1839 and wrote a letter home informing his wife and letting > her know he and the crew were safe, my transcription of that letter below, I wondered if it might be > of interest to others and of course to future FILL researchers > > Thomas Penny FILL was the uncle to Thomas John Golding FILL b1840 Great Yarmouth who married my > great great aunt Fanny YOELL > > (Thomas Penny Fill - letter to his wife and family after his ship was wrecked on the Dutch coast in > 1839) > > ========================= > > Weirum in Holland January 16th 1839 > > My Dear x loving wife and family > Once more the Lord have thought proper to give me an opportunity of writing a few lines to > you hoping to find you all in a perfect state of health as thank God me and your father & all hands > are at this preasant. My dear I am happy to state to you that our lives are all once more saved > after being in a perrilous situation for 9 days. When I left you on Saturday I little thought what I > was going to encounter with. I left you on Saturday or Sunday & bore up again for Yarmouth Roads but > just as I got close to Winterton the wind came away to the SW again. We kept our Reach to the North > and on Monday morning at 2 Oclock we passed Flambrohead at 4 Oclock we had a complete Hurricane > which hove our ship on her beam ends, we stowed all the canvas and the vessel made so much water and > the ballast being all over on one side, the pumps where both chooked and the ship would not righten > so we where obliged to cut away the mainmast but still the ship would wear. She then shifted a verry > hevy sea and washed the Boat to leward and from that time till Wednesday we lay on our Broadside, we > where obliged to turn too with buckets and bale the water out of the hold we could not cook anything > till Saturday then we cooked 2 pieces of Beef x little or no sleep? all the time and the ship still > making much water, all the decks ??? parted and the seams all opened we continued baleing this way > till Monday when we saw the Dutch land and found we could not get clear of it. > > My duty to Mothers and love to Brothers & Sisters & others? > I hope you will except that same love and Duty towards yourself and my Dear little ones and give > them an dExtry Kiss for me and father, Miss Clod our dog was up to the Rig? she might as well told a > fellow what was going tp happen as to run away as shabby as she did, I shall have a reckoning with > her when please God I come home, My Dear when you receive this I hope you will meet me with a few > lines in London, Direct for me to be left at the Coopers Arms Lower Thomas St London, and I shall > write to you as soon as I arrive there. If I should not get my clothes we shall all get a fit out > from the British Consel before I come away, Now my dear and loving wife and mothers I conclude this > time by praying to God to Bless you all, I remain your loving husband Thos P Fill & father John > Palmer > > You need not be afraid of any one seeing this I shall not write to the owner till all is settled. > > This place I am at is rather in Freesland more than in Holland > > ===================== > > (spelling as per letter) > > I have yet to ascertain the name of the vessel that was wrecked > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message