A CHARMED NAME.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 6, 11 February 1890, Page 3

A CHARMED NAME.

In the year 16t4, on the fifth day of December, the English ship Menai was crossing the straits and capsized in a gale. Of the eighty-one passengers on board but one was saved ; bis name was Hugh Williams. On the same day, in the year 1785, a pleasure schooner was wrecked on the Isle of Man. There were sixty persons on board the boat, among them one Hugh Williams and his family. Of the three score none but old Hugh Williams survived (he shock. On the sth day of August, 1828, a pienicing party on the Thames was run down by a coal barge. There were twenty-five of the picnicers, mostly children under twelve years of age. Little Hugh Williams, a visitor from Liverpool, only five years old, was the only one that returned to tell the tale. Now comes the most singular part of this singular story. On the 19th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1889, a L eds coal barge, with nine men, foundered ; two of them, both Hugh Williams, an uncle and nephew, were rescued by some fishermen, and were the only men of the crew who lived to tell of the calamity. These are facts tnat can be substantiated, says the Leeds Mercur ./.