Captain John Willis pictured after he had recovered from the ordeal of the wreck of the Liverpool ship Khyber. The ship wrecked with a loss of 23 lives close to Porthloe Cove near Tol Pedn Coastguard station on March 15, 1905, carrying grain from…
The son of John Hett and Louisa Nicholson. He was born in Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England in 1842. In 1871 he emigrated to Canada where he married Letitia Martyn Sibbald in 1875. They had 9 children. He died by drowning on 15 April 1891, aged 48. He…