The Colony
“Working on Lassiter’s hunch, he had discovered that a doctor by the name of Thomas Garland had settled in St Bride’s parish in Barnsley in the summer of 1797.
That was a full two years before Seamus Ballantyne swapped slavery and seafaring for the freelance saving of souls; but the chronology was still convincing enough. Horan had in all probability resigned his commission in disgust in the period during which the vessel he had served aboard still plied its lucrative trade.
Garland had ...been married to a woman named Martha. He had fathered two daughters. Both of the girls had been baptised at St Bride’s. Fortescue did not know whether or not he had been a pious man. Everyone had been a church-goer in the period in which the doctor had lived. Thankfully for genealogists, everyone had been baptised and every surviving parish was obliged to keep its records.
The bad news was that Horan had no living relatives. There was no cache of papers in a precious family archive stored lovingly in a loft trunk at an ancestral pile somewhere.MoreLess
That was a full two years before Seamus Ballantyne swapped slavery and seafaring for the freelance saving of souls; but the chronology was still convincing enough. Horan had in all probability resigned his commission in disgust in the period during which the vessel he had served aboard still plied its lucrative trade.
Garland had ...been married to a woman named Martha. He had fathered two daughters. Both of the girls had been baptised at St Bride’s. Fortescue did not know whether or not he had been a pious man. Everyone had been a church-goer in the period in which the doctor had lived. Thankfully for genealogists, everyone had been baptised and every surviving parish was obliged to keep its records.
The bad news was that Horan had no living relatives. There was no cache of papers in a precious family archive stored lovingly in a loft trunk at an ancestral pile somewhere.MoreLess
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