Voyage: 1872
Ship: Annie W. Weston
Louisa A. Hays (1842-1905) was the daughter of Gilbert Fowler Hays and Mary Holmes. She was born in New York, the third of her parents’ seven children. Her father was a successful businessman. In 1867, her older sister Mary married John Mason, an Irish immigrant who owned a brewery in San Francisco. Louisa and her brother, Benjamin, followed their sister to California, as both appeared in the Mason household in 1870. In 1872, Louisa married Capt. Henry Otis Winsor while his ship was in San Francisco. According to the wedding announcement, they married in the Masons’ house, not aboard Winsor’s ship as was long believed by the family.
A year after their marriage, Louisa gave birth to a daughter in Brazil while sailing aboard the Annie W. Weston and named her Rio de Janeiro (1873-1875). In 1877, she gave birth to a second daughter in Yokohama, Japan, also aboard the Annie W. Weston. That baby did not survive. Son Harry was born in 1879 in New York. The same year, the Winsor purchased 278 Washington Street in Duxbury.
Capt. Henry Otis Winsor (1825-1907) was the son of Lewis Winsor and Lydia Howett. He grew up on Winsor Street in Duxbury. He sailed aboard the clipper ships Challenger, Flying Cloud, Intrepid, Samuel Reed, and Annie W. Weston, among others.
Source:
Henry Otis Winsor Collection, DAL.MSS.068, Drew Archival Library
