Description Eastern Chronicle, 18 Dec 1902

A visitor to this town from Lunenburg informed the writer of this that a vessel from Ireland was in the "forties" wrecked on Pictou Island, and that she (the vessel) had a number of emigrants on board who had taken passage from a port in Ireland to America.  The crew and passengers were taken into Pictou.  In Pictou, at the time, there happened to be visiting a man named Rissie, whose home was in Lunenburg.  Among the emigrants was an Irish lassie of prepossessing appearance.  Risse was taken, or smitten by the girl, he proposed marriage to her which proposal she accepted and they were married, afterwards going to his home in Lunenburg, where in words of the story writer, they lived happily ever after.  The way the man told the writer the story was this:  He was turning over the leaves of Dr. Patterson's history of this county and volunteered the information that he was looking for an account of the wreck in question, but could not find it, and then he told what has been herein related.  He said that Mr. Rissie was a near neighbour of his father and that his father's family and the Risse's were fast friends. There is no doubt in the writer's mind that Risse of Lunenburg got his wife in some such way and that Mrs. Risse was an Irish lady, but did he meet her in Pictou and has there been such a wreck in the "forties" off Pictou Island or anywhere near that locality?  Can some one of the readers of the E.C. give the desired information. Of course, it would not be pleasant to find that, in vulgar parlance, our leg was being pulled, but if necessary that should be known too.