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which website for deaths at sea?
« on: Sunday 20 December 20 10:45 GMT (UK) »
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Can anybody point me in the right direction as to which website I might find deaths at sea on? The date I'm looking at is 1862. One of the family trees on ancestry records a person of interest as having died at sea in Indonesia in 1862. I don't want to bother the tree owner by messaging them, but they have not included a source, and I'd like to look for myself if possible. I've never had to look this up before - a death at sea - even though I've been researching for years. So any help anybody can give me would be most appreciated.
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Re: which website for deaths at sea?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 20 December 20 11:50 GMT (UK) »
Don't know if this helps, I found out about a ancestors 1869 death at sea in the English Channel when searching Welsh Newspapers.

Mick
Jeffs - Northamptonshire to Leicestershire to Queensland, Australia
Lewis - Wales to Gloucestershire to NSW & Queensland, Australia
Iddols & Baylis - Gloucestershire
Mary Jones - born 1863 Staffordshire, died 1948 Queensland, Australia
daughter of James Jones and Eliza Aston
Dorans - Ireland to Scotland to Queensland, Australia
Ralph - Ireland to Scotland to Queensland, Australia
Jillett - Robert, Transported Convict from Surrey
Christison - Edinburgh,Scotland
Cameron - Edinburgh, Scotland

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Re: which website for deaths at sea?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 20 December 20 12:29 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that. I'll try National newspapers but this death seems to have occurred in Indonesia.

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Re: which website for deaths at sea?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 20 December 20 12:34 GMT (UK) »
Findmypast have some deaths at sea, but I think it would rather depend on under which Country the ship was registered.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: which website for deaths at sea?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 20 December 20 12:35 GMT (UK) »
Oh dear - not an easy task then!
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Re: which website for deaths at sea?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 20 December 20 12:39 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Jebber on Sunday 20 December 20 12:34 GMT (UK)
Findmypast have some deaths at sea, but I think it would rather depend on under which Country the ship was registered.

This is the best set but doesn't include all:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-armed-forces-and-overseas-deaths-and-burials

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Re: which website for deaths at sea?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 20 December 20 12:44 GMT (UK) »
Looks like there could be the right one there. Many thanks for your help. I appreciate it!
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