The steam tug "The Star" and the Patterson family
My Great Yarmouth Ancestry.
By Maureen Maughan
I live in Tyne and Wear but have recently found that some of my ancestors were from Great Yarmouth. My ancestor Christmas Patterson, circa 1869, (yes that was his real name) was the son of Matthew Patterson and Eliza (nee Knights). Matthew was a master of the steam tug "The Star" on the 1881 census, along with his son Matthew and a crew member, Henry Moss, age 28.
On the 1851 census Eliza Knights and her family were living at Row 133. What were these "Rows" - fishermen's homes? I was fascinated when I found this site and would love any information about how these communities lived and worked, and anything about the steam tugs.
Maureen Maughan