Body Found
Jane Parry's body found following ferry crash
North Wales Chronicle, (Oct 4th 1862)
PORTMADOC.
BODY FOUND. – Our readers will remember the devastating disaster that happened several weeks ago to the Porthmadog Ferry, when eight people were unexpectedly swept into the sea. All the bodies were recovered, except that of Jane Parry, milliner, who lived at Tygwyn, on the Meirionnydd side of the river. This girl's story is extremely sad. She was the only one able to care for her widowed mother, and was highly respected by all and looked upon as a wise and good young woman. She was about to be married to a local ship's captain and that was the purpose of her trip to Portmadog to buy a wedding dress etc.,and dreaming of the groom who was waiting for her.
Last Friday, an elderly man called Griffith Morris, a farmer living in Morfa Bychan , was collecting seaweed along the seashore when he found the body of the deceased lying on the beach, and as it happened he recognised it. He picked up the body and placed it in the cart, and promptly headed for Portmadog to inform the police of the circumstances.
Many people came to surround the cart, and there was a feeling of sadness to be felt by everyone for such an untimely death.