32 SIR GEORGE SOMERS AND HIS FAMILY. 



died two years previously, but his daughter Elizabeth grew up 

 and married John Beare, of Bearscombe, Devon. 



The sea seems to have been the element best suited to the 

 Somers family. Matthew was by no means the last of them, 

 and several were mariners. Matthew's elder brother, 

 Nicholas, was about 1610 master of a Lyme ship named " The 

 Christopher," then engaged for a trading voyage to the 

 Canaries ; Richard Somers of Lyme in 1632 was master of 

 :< The Judeth," bound for Newfoundland ; and a John Somers, 

 a mariner of Lyme, died in 1639 leaving a brother named 

 Matthew. Presumably another member of the family was 

 Robert Somers, of Lyme, who died in 1630. It may, therefore, 

 be hoped that there may still be Somers' living who can claim 

 kinship with the discoverer of the Bermudas. 



