Ancestors and Descendants of Adams and Mann and Others

  Margaret Ellen Lumsdaine (1875-1950) married Robert Willis (1877-1951) on December 23, 1900 at St. Margaret’s Church in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.  Their children were Helen Rachel Lumsdaine (1897), Frederick George Lumsdaine (1898), Robert Willis Lumsdaine (1900), Joseph Willis (1903), Edward (1905), Jessie M E Willis (1906) and Mary Willis (1908). By the outbreak of World War I, the family was living at 194 Clapham Road in Lowestoft.  Both Frederick George and Robert Willis were working aboard British fishing vessels when tragedy struck. Margaret Ellen Lumsdaine and Robert Willis were notified of the tragic loss of their eldest son Frederick, 18 years old and within three months received notice of the loss of their second son Robert Willis who was only 17 years old at the time of his death. For the fishermen of Lowestoft the Great War started on November 3rd 1914, when the steam drifter  Fraternal  struck a mine and sank with the loss of three of her crew and ended with the sin

    Christopher Alan Boardman (11 June 1903  Norwich  – 29 September 1987) was the second of 5 children born to Edward Thomas Boardman (1861-1950) and Florence Colman (1869-1960).   As an adult he was a  British   sailor and yachtsman who won gold in the  1936 Summer Olympics . In 1934, Boardman was a member of the crew of the British J-class yacht  Endeavour  which competed in the  America's Cup  off the coast of  Rhode Island . The Endeavour won the first two races but lost the remaining three. Christopher Boardman won a gold medal at the 1936 Games in Berlin. He was a crew member and helmsman of the British boat Lalage which won the gold medal in the  6-metre class . Christopher refused to attend the medal ceremony because Adolf Hitler was presenting the medals. As gold medallist he was also presented with an  oak sapling  which he planted at his home in How Hill, Ludham. It survived being hit by shrapnel from a German bomb before dying a few years ago - and being transfo