Early yachtswoman

[dgadee]

DIsabled with a broken hip and rereading my old sailing books again. Currently on Ernle Bradford's Journeying Moon. His writing is every bit as good as his drinking must have been.

His wife Janet was a gifted sailor, but seems to have disappeared from his life. I find Sam Llewellyn claims to have met her, but also that she died in 1948 at age 23.

Any facts out there? Her maiden name was Rushbury.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

There's a marriage record for 1948:

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Can't find the death record.

Did find this though which suggests they went overseas (presumably to Malta where he died), so no UK death record for her would exist:

The Journeying Moon: Book review - Yachting Monthly.

 

[dgadee]

 

[Sticky Fingers]

So was she both married and died in1948?

 

[dgadee]

So was she both married and died in1948?

AI must be involved.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Well, I suppose speculation could plausibly suggest she died in childbirth…? Don’t know. Not moved this on any I’m afraid.

 

[Wansworth]

I have one of his books ,probably from a jumble sale ,must look it out……cruising in the Med between thewars

 

[Blue_mischief]

Tillman fans may be interested to know that he bought Mischief from Ernie Bradford. Bradford himself was a sailor and writer of note and wrote many books. His book “Ulysses Found” is a particularly interesting read.

 

[Wansworth]

Tillman fans may be interested to know that he bought Mischief from Ernie Bradford. Bradford himself was a sailor and writer of note and wrote many books. His book “Ulysses Found” is a particularly interesting read.

That’s the book I have…will have to find it!

 

[dgadee]

Can't find the death record.

Did find this though which suggests they went overseas (presumably to Malta where he died), so no UK death record for her would exist:

The Journeying Moon: Book review - Yachting Monthly.

That's where it says Sam Llewellyn knew her.

 

[samsonioni]

Sam Llewellyn here. I knew her as Janet Vera-Sanso. She died, I think, last year or the year before. See her articles in the Marine Quarterly, in which you will get the facts straight from the fountainhead.