Wilson Kitwood

Baptised at St Nicholas', Blakeney on 18 March 1831. Parents: Wilson and Mary Kitwood. Abode: Blakeney. Father's Occupation: Sailor. Notes: Noted father Wilson is now dead.

Buried at St Nicholas', Blakeney on 6 February 1848. Aged 16. Abode: Blakeney. Notes: Drowned in the river London. (Source: Burial Record)

http://www.bahs.uk/GH-Files/GH7/GlavenHistorianIssue7.pdf

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" The Kitwood family were not new to the loss of life at sea for Wilson’s sister Ann, had lost her husband Thomas Starling from the smack Lively some eight years earlier. Then as if that were not enough, young Wilson followed in his father’s footsteps and at 16 years of age was drowned in the Thames in London from the brig Equity. The body being returned to Blakeney for burial, where his headstone records the event. Despite these setbacks, Ann remarried a sailor and her son Richard Starling became Harbour Master for a short time."