The Man from Tregantle, Torpoint, Cornwall.

[Doc Vernon]

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Thank you DV. Which category would you suggest I put it in? And yes, it has been a long time, but I have a good feeling about this. I've just got to be patient and chip away at it.

Thank you DV Love it Simon look what it could mean.

Dolci Vita

a life of heedless pleasure and luxury: LOL

[Simon Owens]

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Excellent. Many thanks DV.

[Simon Owens]

Toss this one about it may be feasible? You say that he was onfoot walking to Plymouth and was hitch hiking, possibley had a few beers.
Try this , what if he had been walking from Plymouth to where ever he lived. Could be possible he had signed off a ship in Plymouth and as some of us did had a few beers with ship mates and we all headed off home? I am thinking there may be records held at the national archives of old ships articles(Crew agreements) May be possible to view those articles? Per chance he may have been walking home with someone from the same ship and that someone decided to relieve him off his pay off wages. Dark road tap on the head and into a ditch with lad. Seems strange that there is not a missing persons report around somewhere. But a lot of seamen had no family or had turned his back on family many years ago. just a thought. Must admit to reading a lot of crime novels in my spare time lol.

Hi James, to follow on from your thinking. I am being very mindful not to speculate on The Man from Tregantle's story. Speculation, and too much thinking, can send you down a myriad of rabbit holes and waste lots of time and energy when investigating stories such as these. BUT, i woke up this morning with this thought on my mind.. It seems a little odd that when they found his body, (after perhaps around four years after he died), that he was found with no clothing on at all. All that was left was his skeleton. So I googled "merchant navy stripping of clothes" and up popped a post. Sometimes, seafarers that were crossing the equator for the first time would go through an initiation for Neptune, that could include the stripping of their clothes. And now I am going to speculate for the first time in this story. Could The Man from Tregantle have missed out on this initiation when he crossed the equator, his mates found out when back on land, and during a bit of a night out, he was removed of his clothing as a prank, and left alone to make his way back to wherever he was staying or going? Hence, wandering off the road to find protection, and sadly succumbing to the cold. Total speculation I know, but I am going to include it as a possibility in my loose theory. Pranks like this happen in every day life, not often, but they do happen. People's thoughts on this?