Hi All
I enjoyed your story Annie,
I wanted at add a brief version of another; William Sinclair of the
lyttleton Sinclairs, son of my g,g,g grandfather. IN an article clled Hero
of the CLiff Accident near Lyttleton,
It is said that many swimmers who found themselves in difficuly owe their
lives to this brave man. I was saving his story for my new web site but I
will give a wee snipet. Two young boys had fallen part way down a cliff,
they couldn't be reached by boat and it was too difficult to go down the
cliff. William took off his shoes and socks and climbed around the rough and
dangerous cliff face. Lowered a rope down to the boys climbed down, put the
injured boy on his back climbed one handed to the top, with the other hand
on the boy who was on his back. The boys owed their lives to William, and
according to the newspaper article he was such a modest man that to get any
information out of william about any rescue he did they had to interogate
him. This all happened in 1894. A slighly fuller version with excepts out of
the paper will be found on my new website when it is officially launched and
finished along with many other stories.
With such modesty and bravery in my line I better get working on being a
better person so that I can do my ancestors names and memory proud.
Jenny
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