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My Ancestors Were Hotelkeepers Here

Hugh House Hotel 1891
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My Great Grand Aunt Sarah Holgate, née Barnes, came here with her husband Benjamin in the 1870s to run the hotel (from Manchester). Benjamin died in 1877 and Sarah stayed in charge until sometime in the 1890s because in the 1901 census she is retired in Newquay. I am descended from Sarah's brother, George Barnes, who went to London and became a brewery manager somewhere south of the Thames (it is assumed because of census locations.) George married a girl from a very old Kent family called Caroline Wood and one of their daughters, Edith Mary Barnes (1871-1954) married my grandfather, Dr Robert Douglas Muir. So the world turns.

Written by Thomas Muir. To send Thomas Muir a private message, click here.

A memory of St Mary's in Isles of Scilly shared on Saturday, 10th September 2011.

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