Mr Peter R Rule (Letters, January 1) was looking for details about his grandfather’s death.
His grandfather was Baruch George Whitty, who was baptised in Holy Trinity Church in Beaminster on 26th September 1886, son of Baruch Whitty and Alice Whitty née Way.
He went to live in Preston near Weymouth and married Elizabeth Hoare of Bridport in St Mary’s Church in Bridport on 15th August 1914.
Their daughter Ruth Whitty was born in the Weymouth district in 1916 and she married Bruce William James McKay Rule there in the second quarter of 1940.
The German parachute mine dropped on the Chapelhay area of Weymouth on 17th November 1940 killed 12 people and destroyed 77 houses, with many more seriously damaged. The Rising Sun was devastated, but Baruch George Whitty and his wife Elizabeth Whitty survived.
They became landlord and landlady of the Railway Inn in Maiden Newton, where Baruch George Whitty died in 1944 aged 57. He was buried in the graveyard of Holy Trinity Church in Beaminster on 11th August 1944.
His widow Elizabeth Whitty née Hoare died in what had become the Railway Hotel in Maiden Newton on August 14 1955 aged 69. I have other details if required.
Chris Pafford Wellington Court, Weymouth
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