Ho ho! The net draws in. Lucy Beach and her parents were from Sixpenny Handley - population: a few hundred - so they would have known the village pub landlord and his blue-eyed daughter in all likelihood, the one who married Isaac Gulliver. Lucy's father and mother were William and Alice Beach, and Thomas Beach was probably William's brother (see previous entry in regards Thomas Beach).
And! There are lots of Adams in the records, so this is likely another crossroads for a Cranborne connection too. Here's what A.R. had written to me a week or so ago:
Just an interesting snippet I gained from [Grandma's cousin] today. I was bringing her up to date with your findings, and when I mentioned Sixpenny Handley, she remembered a little thing that always interested her. Her father worked for the Post Office, and he either found out from there, or else went to Sixpenny Handley, and found out that the Post Office there was run by two spinster sisters by the name of Adams. So there were Adams all around the area.
This is the sum total of my findings for the weekend. I have also had communication from someone through this blog on the Caish/Hyde side and there may be more information coming from him soon. I have only just emailed him back - his message had come in days ago. Here's hoping he is a real person that we might be connected to, and not some other sort of internet-trawling party.
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