The man who took 3 wives

Great story over at Camelot who are visiting Palmerston. The family now owns the island, so you might want to start looking for one yourself;-)

The man was John Marsters and was originally from Lancashire England (the county that we are both from). Anyway all the people are his descendants - I think there are about 70 people.

And

Correction from yesterday - the prolific populator from Lancashire was William Marsters, not John, and he lived out here in 1862 onwards. We are 8 miles offshore, so should be adopted soon by the locals.......eek.