A Romance in Real Life

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 121, 1 April 1893, Page 4

A Romance in Real Life

A romantic affair has just come to light in Essex. Seven years ago Henry Chuney, a sailor, belonging to "Wivenhoe, in that county, left England on board the Ironopolis, of London. The ship was wrecked and most j of the crew were lost, including as there was good reason to suppose, Uhaney. An insurance on his life was paid by the Prudential Company, and death allowances were also granted by the Fishermen's Aid Society and the Foresters. Mrs Chancy bravely set to work to earn a living for herself and her children, whom she brought up most respecta'-ly. Last spring two of the daughters thought they saw their father in the street at Wivenhoe, while quite recently another daughter, who is now a lady's maid iv London, wrote home that she Lad met her father, and that each had recognised the other. Soon after this the missing man wroto a letter to his wife, describing tho wreck of the Ironopolis, ami saying that he was picked up by a passing steamer, and taken to Brussels Infirmary, and thence to au asylum, where he was detained till last April. Ho then returned to London, and visited Wivenhoe with the intention of seeing his wife, but being told (which was not true) that his wife was on the point of getting married toauother man, ho did not fulfil his intention. In consetTUenco of the accidental meeting with his daughter in London, Chancy bas been re-united to the family from which he has been so long separated. He is now employed at a warehouse in Cheapside.