Southsea is an ancient town in Hampshire adjacent to Portsmouth.

The following is an excerpt from a letter by family researcher Henry M. West Winter to Bermudian genealogist William Zuill dated March 23, 1936. The full text can be read at the profile of John Dunscombe (1777-1847). This section relates to Caroline:

"The fourth child was Caroline Augusta, who married the Hon. James Crowdy, Colonial Secretary of Nova Scotia, and Administrator of Newfoundland. They had a son and a daughter, of which the son only married and had issue."

" My mother had three married sisters, all of whom I remember. The eldest, my aunt Eliza, Mrs Camman, whom I knew only as a widow; my aunt Margaret, Mrs Vallance; and my aunt Caroline, Mrs Crowdy, wife of Mr James Crowdy, sometime administrator or Acting Governor of Newfoundland. Like my mother, both Mrs Vallance and Mrs Crowdy were beautiful women. I last saw the later at Southsea, some years after I entered the Navy, when she was in delicate health, not long before her death. Even then, her beauty was striking. A miniature of my mother which we have shows how great was her share of good looks." (Bridge, Cyprian. "Some recollections." London: John Murray, 1918, pg. 23)