Gravestone photo attached.
John died on the ship.
Ian C
for the record Papers Past has
Daily Southern Cross 9 January 1869 Page 2
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ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP QUEEN BEE FROM LONDON. The clipper ship Queen Bee, 726 tons, Captain John Leslie, anchored off Rangitoto about six o'clook last evening, after a smart passage of 99 days from the Downs. The Queen Bee left the Downs on the 1st of October, with forty-one passengers...
We regret to state that during the voyage two of the passengers died— Alexander Forgie, on the 12th November, of dropsy in the chest and
John Townfield, on December 7, of consumption.
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