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From: "Len Knott" <>
Subject: HANNAH/HANNAY
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 98 22:44:15 +0100 (BST)

Hello Everyone,
This new List has got away to an excellent start.
Tom Welch is rightly proud of the DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY List
and I am sure we shall make every attempt to make this one a success too.

I give below extracts from two Galloway Newspapers......
John Hannah was my wife's ggrandfather and his memorial is on a headstone
in the cemetery at Ballantrae where his wife Janet Murdoch, his sister Anne and his brother William are buried. John's body was not recovered from the sea.
My wife still wears her ggrandmother's wedding ring of Russian gold brought home by Janet's brother when he returned home minus an arm from the Crimea after the Battle of Alma. Even without an arm he still fished for a living.

John's eldest son James went to Australia - any subscriber down-under who recognises this story, I would like to hear from, as we have lost touch.

It would be fascinating to hear from descendants of John Coulter and the 'man named Lyons'

Finally I am interested in finding out about John's father also James - who was a bit of a dog according to the Kirk Session Records - he married Anne Torburn in 1819 at Ballantrae. He diappeared a few years later - herein lies a mystery!
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Galloway Advertiser and Wigtownshire Free Press
Thursday March 29th 1883

"TWO FISHERMEN DROWNED IN LOCH RYAN,-
On Tuesday afternoon John Coulter and John Hannay,
salmon fishers, residing in Ballantrae, left there
in their boat, accompanied by a man named Lyons,
for Port Beg, parish of Kirkcolm, for the purpose
of plying their occupation. Lyons wishing to return
home in the evening, they took him across the loch
to Glenapp Bay. They had not gone far on the return
journey to Port Beg, the wind blowing strongly from
the N.N.W at the time, when the boat was observed
all at once to disappear from sight, and both men
were drowned. Yesterday a small fleet of boats were
out dredging for the bodies, but without success."

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The Galloway Gazette
Saturday March 31st 1883

"TWO MEN DROWNED IN LOCH RYAN.-
On Tuesday afternoon a melancholy accident
occurred in Lochryan. Two men named John Coulter
and John Hanney both residing in Ballantrae, went
from there accompaned (sic) by a man named Lyon
to prosecute their calling of salmon fishing on
the Kirkcolm shore. In the afternoon, Lyon was
conveyed across the Loch to Glenapp, as he wished
to return home. On their passage back and not far
from the shore a sudden squall struck the boat,
which at once disappeared. The men were not
afterwards seen. It is said that the accident was
observed from a smack but owing to the violence
of the storm no assistance could be rendered."
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Best Regards
Len Knott

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~belgae
A ROOTSWEB SPONSER
New Forest in the South of England

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