Hello, Pauline,
I read with interest the account of the wreck of 'La Jeune Emma". I
had read it previously in John Nicholson's "Pembrey and Burry Port, Their
Harbours, Shipwrecks and Looters". (p. 94) However, in a more recemt
publication by the same author, (Pembrey & Burry Port, A Historical
Miscellany), Book 2, pp. 20-22, he questions the veracity of the
inscription on the headstone and makes the following statement:
.."I find it disagreeable to write that the available evidence does not
support the close family kinship of Adeline and Josephine as described on
the memorial stone".
He goes on to the trace Josephine's early life and was, in his words.
"perplexed" after checking various dates in an encyclopaedia regarding
Adeline's relationship to Josephine. His findings make interesting
reading and he concludeds that Adeline was not a neice of Josephine but
may have been a descendant of Josephine's uncle, Baron Tascher, her
father's only brother.
Kind regards,
Cynthia Collison,
Australia (CFHS Member)