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Thank you so much. This sounds like it could be the place. Do you know if it was popular with sailors as the shanties sung in the Red Lion mentioned in the letter I referred to were the inspiration for the young man in question
I’m writing a non-fiction book about a young man from Birmingham who ran away to sea in or around 1837 and ended up founding a dynasty on a remote island in the South Pacific which his descendants own in perpetuity. I have a letter from one of his descendants who says the young man decided on...
