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Contributed: On Friday, 9th October the sailing boat Mariecelia left Rance in France to return to Jersey. On board were Mr and Mrs James Mackenzie Fraser, Mr Michael McCowan, Miss Alison Bruce Mitchell and the Fraser's son Robert. As you rightly said it was a week-end of terrible storms and within sight of Jersey the Mariecelia was hit by huge waves, the yacht's superstrucure was swept away and all 5 were thrown into the water.

Apparently they all survived for a while but one by one were swept away. The only survivor was Alison Bruce Mitchell who after 15 hours in the water managed to struggle ashore at a remote bay on the north of the island. She was found by a farmer and his 2 sons (who I was at school with!) and spent about 2 weeks in hospital.

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Farmer
Lately of La Maison Maret, Trinity

Died:
Death: Oct 1964 in At sea off Jersey of Died at sea in hurricane off Jersey

James married Doris Jane Douglas on 12 Feb 1935 in St James, South Aubrey Street, London. Doris (daughter of Robert Greenshields Douglas and Ethel Emma Robins) was born on 11 Nov 1911 in Punta Arenas, Chile; died in Oct 1964 in English Channel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Kown as Dolly
Moved to Jersey. Previously in Eversley, and Edinburgh WW2

Contibuted: On Friday, 9th October the sailing boat Mariecelia left Rance in France to return to Jersey. On board were Mr and Mrs James Mackenzie Fraser, Mr Michael McCowan, Miss Alison Bruce Mitchell and the Fraser's son Robert. As you rightly said it was a week-end of terrible storms and within sight of Jersey the Mariecelia was hit by huge waves, the yacht's superstrucure was swept away and all 5 were thrown into the water.

Apparently they all survived for a while but one by one were swept away. The only survivor was Alison Bruce Mitchell who after 15 hours in the water managed to struggle ashore at a remote bay on the north of the island. She was found by a farmer and his 2 sons (who I was at school with!) and spent about 2 weeks in hospital.

Died:
Death: Oct 1964 in At sea off Jersey of Died in hurricane at sea off Jersey

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Second Lieutenant in the Suffolk Yeomanry

There is a family memorial at St Bride's Church, Douglas, Lanarkshire

Died:
Died of wounds

Robert married Ethel Emma Robins on 28 May 1910 in St James, Punta Arenas, Chile. Ethel was born on 8 Jul 1874; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1865 hired by Falkland Islands Company; 1866 living at Darwin Harbour; c1883 moved from Falklands to Patagonia; 1889 inherited half-share of Useful Station, Estancia Esperanza, Prov. Santa Cruz, from brother-in-law Thomas Greenshields;

Greenshields, Thomas
Member of a Scottish family which owned 42,000 acres in the Falklands. He arrived in Patagonia in 1884, where he had a ranch at Monte Dinero on the south-east tip of Santa Cruz. He married Ann McMunn in 1889 but he died a few months later aged 29, leaving no children. He was buried in Punta Arenas Public Cemetery, leaving a will bequeathing William Douglas half of Useful Hill, the other half to his brother George Greeshields and a share in Douglas Station in the Falklands to his brother James.

(Research):Posibly brother of Thomas, also born c1846

William married Jane Greenshields on 14 Sep 1881 in Falkland Islands. Jane (daughter of Robert Greenshields and Elizabeth Paterson) was born on 27 Jul 1855 in Carmichael, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was christened on 30 Oct 1855 in Carmichael, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died in 1899. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Seamstress