James Clampett

  Events

• He was employed as an Ostler at an Inn working for John Mills in 1851 in Teignmouth, Devon, England. ostler (also hostler) noun historical: a man employed to look after the horses of people staying at an inn.

• Shipwreck: Survived sinking of "John", 3 May 1855, Plymouth, Devon, England. Wife and daughter assumed drowned.

Extract from newspaper report in Plymouth and Stonehouse Journal 10 May 1855
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The barque John, of Plymouth, (Mr Rawle, master), which had only left Plymouth Sound on Thursday afternoon, had struck on the Manacles Rock, off St. Keverne, on the coast of Cornwall, and that upwards of one hundred and ninety of her passengers had been drowned.

James married Eliza about 1854 in Devon, England. (Eliza was born about 1831 in Newton Abbot, Devon, England, died on 3 May 1855 in Plymouth, Devon, England and was buried in Assumed lost at sea.)