Jenkinson, the last of the ten children born to Richard HAXBY and Hannah CAMMISH, arrived on this day, 1875. When he was 27, and four years married to Sarah Lizzie SCOTTER, he attended the wedding of older brother Robert and signed the register.
Robert was a 35-year-old bachelor when he married Eliza WATKINSON, (29, spinster). The couple would have three children, George William, born 1903, Richard (1905) and Elizabeth Watkinson (1907).
On the 23rd March 1911, Robert was drowned about eight miles north-east of Flamborough Head.

Though described in this report as a motor coble, I suspect Annie was perhaps a yawl – to have carried a small boat. In the Deaths at Sea Register (from whence the eight miles distance comes), Robert is listed as “2nd Hand”. I don’t know who the boy Cammish may have been and Captain Syd’s database doesn’t offer a likely candidate for Annie. It does, however, indicate that James DOUGLAS, born 1885, had taken ownership of Contest a week before this sad event. Perhaps the other Filey fisherman James, born 1860 and Sexton at St Oswald’s in his twilight years, was the owner named above.
The funeral of Robert’s son, Richard, lost from Joan Margaret (Tuesday’s post), took place on the 23rd March 1941. A small headstone also remembers his parents and William WATKINSON, an uncle I think.

In loving memory of RICHARD HAXBY, killed by enemy action, 20th March 1941, aged 36.
‘Love’s last gift’
Also of his parents, ROBERT, lost at sea, 23rd March 1911, aged 43.
ELIZA, died 29th July 1944, aged 72.
Also, WILLIAM WATKINSON, died 2nd Jan 1934, aged 85.
The loss of Robert is also recalled on a much grander stone.

The “Memory” to Robert on FST has the inscription.