KING

Alias Mary Sarah DONNE (1901)
Born 16 Aug 1871, Butshead Mill, St Budeaux
Died 31 May 1955, 'Riverside', Saltash Passage, St Budeaux, Plymouth, Devon
Buried 3 Jun 1955, Higher St.Budeaux Parish Church
Recorded on marriage certificate as 'Waverley Villas'. House in Normandy Way, on the old road to Saltash Passage, now blocked off at the Tamar Bridge works
Reminiscences of Mary Sarah Donne nee King are recorded as follows, quoted in a book on shipping in the River Tamar:

"Of the building of the Flora May (the name of a barge) Miss Florence
Daymond relates a conversation with an elderly relative, the late Mrs Donne
of St Budeaux, who told her that Miss Daymond's father had 'borrowed 400
sovereigns from us, and paid it all back, plus interest, within three
years'."

The full reference for the book is: Merry, Ian D. (1980) The Shipping and
Trade of the River Tamar, parts 1 and 2. National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich.

Born 23 Dec 1870, 16 Paradise Place, Stoke Damerel, Devonport
Died 2 Jul 1951, 'Riverside', Saltash Passage, St Budeaux, Plymouth
Recorded on marriage certificate as 'The Firs'. House on the corner of Wolseley Road approaching Saltash Passage
In about 1900 J.F Donne combined forces with Tozer and Allen to build Lynher Terrace; in 1902,2 Lynher Terrace was occupied by the Baptist Pastor, the Rev. Henry Smart. The old methods of working required more men than today which gave a source of income for many local tradesman workin gin the locality (see picture, reference Marshall Ware - The Ancient Parish of St. Budeaux)
A photograph datng from about 1900 shows J.F. Donne's building yard off Vicarage Road (now Normandy Way). His father, James Donne, built a number of houses in this area from 1890 onwards and the Donne family owned over thirty at one time.

A famly anecdote records that James, as a young man 'ran away' to Canada and was rounded up and returned to England by the Mounties (RCMP). The truth of this is uncertain, but note that James Frederick Donne does not feature in the 1891 census for Devon.

The UK outbound passenger lists show a James Donne, aged 19, voyaging from Liverpool to Quebec in 1890 (see http://www.findmypast.com/). The complete transcription is as follows:

Name: James DONNE
Date of departure: 17 April 1890
Port of departure: Liverpool
Destination port: Quebec Destination country: Canada
Age: 19
Marital Status: Single
Sex: Male
Occupation: Lab

Ship: SARDINIAN
Official Number: 0
Master's name: William Richardson
Steamship Line: Allan Line
Where bound: Quebec Port, Canada
Square feet: 12926
Registered tonnage: 2577
Passengers on voyage: 790