Simply had to share the following extract from a Wigtown Free Press. Many thanks to Phil Reed for doing the legwork on this. I haven't been able to tie them in to my Vernons yet but any fellow researchers researching the Dargaval name will be interested to note that my research indicates that the widow was Elizabeth Dargaval and the bereaved children were Samuel VERNON - M Birth: 26 Jul 1861 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Samuel married Maggie Thomson at Creetown 1900/27/12 3g (Died 16 Sept 1936 age 76) Elizabeth VERNON - F Birth: 4 May 1863 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, d 28 Oct 1899 age 36.(c.1863) John Dargavel VERNON - M Birth: 22 Dec 1864 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, d. West Virginia USA July 1910 age 45(c.1865). Jane Stewart VERNON -F Birth: 11 Jul 1867 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, note Jane was born 8 months after the wreck so the poor widow had alot more to contend with. CREETOWN - Wreck And Loss Of Life 15th Nov 1866 One of the most melancholy events that have taken place here for many years occurred on Saturday night and has cast a feeling of sadness over the whole community. The schooner ROSE of this place, owned and commanded by Captain John Vernon, and manned by William Vernon, brother of the above, and a boy named Paterson, belonging to Newton -Stewart, was driven ashore near Barnfoot on Saturday night by one of the severest gales we have had this season. The Rose was bound for Garliestown from Barrow, with a cargo of slates, but being caught in the gale and having her sails torn away, the captain determined on running for Creetown, but being too early for the tide, and not being able to hold out, she struck and in a short time was driven about at the mercy of the waves. The crew took to the small boat, but by some means or other were thrown out into the sea, and after some struggling with the waves William Vernon and the boy succeeded in gaining the shore, but the captain after cal! ling out for the other two to ''swim for their lives'' was never seen by them more alive, and it is supposed he had been stunned by a blow from some piece of the wreckage or something of that sort, as he was an expert swimmer. Although there are a number of houses close to the scene of the wreck and it occurred about 11 o'clock at night nothing was seen or heard of the catastrophe until all help was in vain. The body of the captain was found on Sabbath morning about a mile off high water mark and was conveyed home to Creetown, to his sorrowing and bereaved widow and their three children, the eldest of whom cannot be over six years of age. Deceased was a man in the prime of life, and was much respected by all who new him. Much sympathy is felt for his bereaved family, as the vessel is become a total wreck, and for half a mile the shore at Broompool exhibits a most melancholy spectacle, being strewed all along with portions of the vessel twisted and torn into a thousand piec! es. With the husband and with the vessel are gone the sole means of support of this afflicted family, and we understand their circumstances are such as to warrant the hope that the benevolent will take up their cause. - Dumfries Courier. Darlene and Gorman Vernon