QUAKER MINISTERS DYING ABOARD BRITANNIA

·       George mentioned the deaths of Thomas Musgrave and

         Henry Mitchell in his first letter; both prominent Ministers.

·       I was surprised to learn that George’s sister, Alice,

         was also a Quaker Minister.

·       Alice, wife of John Kencerly, is undoubtedly George Haworth's

        sister, who along with her husband and baby, died at sea on the Britannia.

·       Kencerly is clearly an erroneous transcription of Kennerly

         (also spelled Kennerley and Kenerlley).

·       According to George Redmonds in his book

         “Christian Names in Local and Family History”,

          Kennerly/Kennerley is a colloquial variant of Kenworthy

         “that appears to have no obvious linguistic explanation”.

·       This explains the controversy of whether Alice’s husband

          was “John Kennerly” or “John Kenworthy’. He was both

          and both names were often recorded in the old records

          for the same person; including the birth of “John Kenerlley

          or Kenworthey” on 06 Apr 1673 in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England.

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