Herald - Issue 416

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Vice Admiral of the Wight. e last paragraph mentions the death of two of his daughters, only 9 months a er their mother‘s death, on the 14th September 1814. is is their ‘Tale’. A er the death of their mother Fanny (Frances) at Fareham, and her burial in the family grave at All Saint’s Church, Fawley, the children continued to live in the family home in either Fareham or possibly Tich eld. By this time, Charlotte Mary Parry was aged 40 years, and Emily Parry was 29 years old. In the summer of 1815 they were invited to spend some time with their aunt and uncle, who lived in Sussex, at their seaside retreat at Aldwick near Bognor. We now need to go back in time to understand the history of the aunt and uncle who were descendants of the Browne family. At the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII, the family threw the monks out of Battle Abbey, and a monk cursed them, telling them that they would su er many tragedies by re and water. Eventually the curse took e ect in 1793 by destroying the Poyntz’s (direct descendants of the Browne family) family home by re, the beautiful Cowdray Park mansion. e direct descendant of Sir Anthony Browne, George Samuel, 8th Viscount Montagu was the next victim of the monk’s curse. At the time of the re he was a student in Germany, and was to die in a mad attempt to shoot the falls at Sca ausen, a town near the Swiss border. His little at bottomed boat became jammed between two sets of rocks; he and his colleague were thrown out into the fast owing white water, and were never seen again. George died leaving no heirs, so Pavilion House, near Aldwick. At that time Aldwick was a village between Bognor and Pagham Harbour. ey very kindly invited their nieces Charlotte and Emily Parry to join them and the girls were happy to accept. ( is house later became Craigwell House where King George V came to convalesce in 1929, a stay which resulted in Bognor becoming Bognor Regis. e house was demolished in 1938). On Friday 7th July 1815, which was a warm sunny day with almost no wind, and a very calm sea, a large family party plus friends, gathered at Pavilion House. Colonel Poyntz proposed to take a cruise on his sailing yacht, but his wife strongly opposed the suggestion because she had a great fear of the sea. Eventually she was persuaded and reluctantly allowed the children to go. e yachting party consisted of Colonel Poyntz, his two sons William and Courtenay and their tutor, his nieces Emily and Charlotte Parry plus a local sherman named Veryon and his son, to crew the boat. e Colonel’s daughter Isabella who was notoriously unpunctual was le behind, but just before the yacht sailed, ten year old Courtenay took o the locket he always wore, handed it to his sister Isabella, asking her to keep it safe until he returned. e a ernoon passed pleasantly enough with a light breeze lling the sails of the yacht, sun dancing on the water, and everyone happy with such a wonderful experience. Just before four o’clock, Mr Veryon turned the boat for home. Mrs Poyntz and her daughters had spent the a ernoon watching the boat from the house, waving and signalling to them and summoning the party home to dinner. ey were still sitting at the drawing room window watching the returning boat, when to their horror, they saw what was described in the Sussex Weekly Advertiser of Monday 10th of July as ‘a sort of tornado’ which hit the boat suddenly, probably broadside on, and before Veryon could bring her up into wind, the yacht capsized throwing all the occupants into the sea. e Advertiser continued the story by adding that ‘Haystacks were dispersed by the tornado and a windmill in a eld about half a mile from the city of Chichester was set a-going with great velocity’. Colonel Poyntz managed to grab hold of the boat, and his two, young, frightened sons clung to him as he tried desperately to support them. Mr Veryon had managed to reach the boat, but there was no sign of the tutor, the son of Mr Veryon or the two Parry Continued on page 15 his beautiful sister, Lady Elizabeth Mary Browne inherited the estate and then married Colonel William Stephen Poyntz on 1st September 1794. ey had 5 children, two sons and three daughters. In June 1815 the Poyntz family le Cowdray Park to spend a few weeks at their seaside retreat,