JACK TAR'S ROMANCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 27 June 1911, Page 3

JACK TAR'S ROMANCE.

SEAMAN. WHO MAHRIED THE DAUGHTER. OF AN. OFFICER. A romantic story of an orphan girl, whose father, a Jack Tar, married the daughter of a naval officer, who was ostracised' by her family in consequence, was told before the Probate. Court when application was made to presume the d-»ath of Mr William Henry Fowler and liis wife. Mir Payley BailfJotJ, who made the applLJcaition, saidi -William 1 ! Henry Fowler was a young A.B. in the mercantile marine ant 1874 when he ir.amed hi* wife, the daughter of a lienteniaMi in the Navy. They lived' at Yougftai, Ireland, and with the exception of the wife's mother, none of the family would have anything to do with them. Mr and Mrs Fowler went to reside nsar Liverpool, where the wife's mother, Mrs Travers joined thetn. Shortly before 1884 Mr 'and Mrs Fowler anmourmced their intention of going to America. Whether they ever got there or even sariled was not known, and nothing had been heard of them &ince. The only living clw'ld of the marriage, a daughter, was left with Mrs Travers. who went back and lived in Cork. Mrs Travers died in 1893, and' as none of her family would assist the child she had to go .into domestic service. Subsequently the cirl married. Her mother, it appeared, became interested; in a surni of money left under _ a will. In the course of proceedings inquiries were made, but no information about the missing couple could be obtained. The only child now asked leave to presume the death of her parents as having occurred in or since November, 1884. His lordship granted the application to presume the couple's death as from the time of their disappearance.