Robert Terris Jnr (1846 - 1888)

Born 1846 in Walton Le Soken, Essex

Ancestors

Died 21 Jun 1888 at about age 42 in Walton on the Naze

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Biography

1871 - A Robert Terris lost his ship during a gale (May be the Father Robert Terris)

1874 - Robert Jnr. Is listed as a pleasure boat proprietor in Essex Post Office directory.

1878 - Listed as a boat owner in Post office directory. Address given as New Pier Street, Walton-on-the-Naze.

1880 - came first in the Walton Regatta, rowing the "Silvercloud". However he was disqualified for passing on the wrong side of flag 3.

1881 - working as a mariner. Living at Concrete Villas, Walton Le Soken with his wife and children. His brother John lives a couple of houses away.

1882 - Robert Terris had to retrieve the body of his neighbours five year old son from a soft water tank. '...Robt. Terris, boatman of Walton said - I live next door to Mr. F. J. Bachelor. Last evening the 26th inst., about six o'clock, Mr Gracie came to my house and said he thought there was something in the well in Mr Batchelor's yard. I went with him and got a pole and put it down and I felt something at the bottom. There was about five feet of water in the well. I got a piece of yarn and lashed a boat hook to the pole and pulled the body up. I found it was the body of Frederick William Bachelor, son of Mr. F. J. Bachelor, fisherman, Walton. The child was quite dead. I carried him into my kitchen and he was afterwards taken to his father's house. The place is a soft water tank, with an opening level to the ground, and has a wooden removable lid. Mr Welham saw the deceased and declared there were no marks of violence on the body, death resulting from suffocation from drowning. By the way the deceased was lying, I think he must have fallen in head first. There was a small cask or buoy near the tank over which he might have stumbled. William John Gracie, engine fitter, Walton, said - I lodge at Mr F Batchelor's. I saw the deceased last at about three o'clock in the afternoon on the 26th instant, he went out in the yard to play. At six o'clock in the evening, in consequence of the deceased having been missed since four o'clock I put a pole down the tank and felt something like the body of a child. I then went and told Mr. Terris, the last witness, and we pulled it out.' (Saturday 30th December 1882, Essex Standard)

1888 - He is 2nd Coxwain of the H.A.C lifeboat and partner in the Yacht and Boating company of Terris, Halls, Britton and Co.

Buried: Walton on the Naze

Gravestone details; Robert Terris, Who died 21st June 1888, Aged 40 years, Also of, Ernest John Sidney, Youngest son of the above, Born June 14th 1884, Died August 1884, Blessed are the dead which die in the lord, Also of, Emma Jane, Wife of the above, Who died March 4th 1903, Aged 55 years, The weary are at rest. (Gravestone made by: Booth and Smith, Kengall Road, Colchester)

Cause of death: Consumption

Other - there is a photograph of Robert Terris at www.putmans.co.uk

Sources

• Parish records

Census records Newspaper archives Walton and Frinton Lifeboat: a station history 1884-2005 by John Steer Putmans photographers Visiting area