Sandycomb resulted from researching my family history.

The Sandycomb family lived during the early 1800s in Cornwall. The father was a Master Mariner, he spent his time away at sea while his wife brought up their three daughters and two sons.

In 1841 the census finds the mother, Anne, with two of her daughters, destitute and living in a workhouse in East London.

Why with all the difficulties involved in those days would she have dragged her children the 250 odd miles from Cornwall to London with so little money they had nothing to live on when the arrived?

How did they survive to appear ten years later living in Rotherhithe for the youngest daughter's marriage?

 

This book, takes in all the available documented information and attempts to fill in the gaps,  revealing some intriguing possibilities ....