James Boulter

[mwjw22jb]

Hi,
Just an update to the 1877 DC for James Boulter listed as Boland in Hong Kong. I got a reply from GRO today saying that they don't have the DC and they refunded my money. They advised me to try the Foreign Embassy in Hong Kong but I'm not sure there is even one there since Hong Kong was transferred back to China. Anyway I think trying to find the DC may be a dead end after all.
Thank you everyone for all your help - I really appreciate it.
Marj

[softly softly]

Thanks for the update. How disappointing with regard to the death cert. At least we know he is remembered and buried with a marked grave.

John

[mwjw22jb]

That's exactly what I thought too John .
Marj

[bbart]

James Boland comes up in the Carl Smith collection.  If you don't know this collection, Rev. Carl Smith painstakingly recorded notes on everything in the Hong Kong newspapers over a span of many years.

The dates shown are normally for the newspaper date, not the event date, which leaves Boland as a very good candidate, except for the fact you found something that says he died in the navy hospital.

Boland, James
Death -  8 June 1877 - James Boland, 37 yrs. English, found
dead in sea.

https://search.grs.gov.hk/en/searchcarl.xhtml?q=&names=boland&cno=

[softly softly]

bbart, that does look a good find, with dates all but matching up. I might ring the gro office myself on Monday to see what the story is with that death reference in the overseas death records.

John

[bbart]

That's a kind offer, John, but maybe hold off till mwjw22jb comes back; I want to make sure that for the GRO reference they put in the entire line of info , which in this case is:
Boland, James,  Hong Kong, 1877-78, Page 1027, Line 75, DCHA   
Because the box is so tiny, many people just put in the page and line, not realizing the box will let you type pretty much forever!

I'm not sure how much more info the death reg. would supply.  I have ordered many overseas documents, and found it quite disappointing, particularly for births (never have gotten the mmn!).  The person (chaplain) filling it out just didn't have access to a lot of info.

I did a bit of looking on the NA Kew and came across the attached record. James died in the Navy hospital there it seems.

It seems the attachment didn't work?  Was there any dates given?

[mwjw22jb]

Hi all,
It's been ages since I vivited this topic but I hadn't realized I had more replies as didn't get any notifications. I'm so sorry. I've attached the Hong Kong reference to James' death which was in his naval history.
Marj