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Topic: National Archives Kew Lookup please *COMPLETED* (Read 480 times)
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Debbie658
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Hi,
Is anyone going to the National Archives at Kew? I have looked everywhere for Deaths at Sea Records in Australia as well as on the findmypast website but keep coming up against brick walls. Then someone told me that the "Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers at Sea 1854-1858" is on microfilm at the National Archives at Kew UK. The National Archives Catalogue lists this Record as being part of BT 158 and access to microfilm copies is available.
I'm looking for one of my ancestors who died while on a voyage from England to Australia. Her name was Hannah Hopkins and she was aboard the "SS Samuel Boddington" which departed Plymouth, en route to Australia in 1855. She was travelling with her husband Joseph and four children: Joseph Jnr, Benjamin, Mary and Keturah. I have looked at the Assisted Immigrants Passenger Lists on Microfilm at my local library and it says "Wife died on voyage" beside Hannah's name. I can't find a record of her Death anywhere 
I'm not sure if viewing the records is free at the Archives but I think there is a charge for photocopies. If anyone finds anything on Hannah I'm more than happy to pay for any copies. Hoping someone can please help me with this, I would be extremely grateful.
Deb
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TAYLOR - Leeds, Yorkshire
HOWMAN - Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
HOPKINS - Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire
COOPER - Rutland, Lincolnshire
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Ruskie
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Deb,
A few thoughts .... 
I wonder if her death may be registered at the next port the ship docked at? I imagine she may have been buried at sea or at the next port if it was close enough.
Also I believe some (not sure if all) ships also have seperate medical reports - have you investigated this at the state archives where the ship arrived in Australia?
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Debbie658
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Hi Dawn,
No worries, whenever you get a chance.
Deb
Hi Ruskie,
Thanks for the reply. Have checked everywhere here in Oz. Even been in contact with the Dept of Immigration, our National Archives, State Records Department (to check the ship's log) but everyone is pointing me in the direction of Kew because they say she was a British National and that it would be at the National Archives, if there was any record of her at all. "Hannah" is leading me round in circles. Maybe she doesn't want to be found.
Deb
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TAYLOR - Leeds, Yorkshire
HOWMAN - Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
HOPKINS - Tydd St Giles, Cambridgeshire
COOPER - Rutland, Lincolnshire
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Ruskie
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Good luck in the search Deb.
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