Gravestone photo attached.
John died on the ship.
Ian C
I have tracked down in
Papers Past the following
Daily Southern Cross 9 January 1869 Page 2 ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP
QUEEN BEE FROM LONDON.
The clipper ship
Queen Bee, 726 tons, Captain John Leslie, anchored off Rangitoto about six o'clock 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, and a large miscellaneous cargo, in company with the ship
Wild Duck, for Wellington, Experienced fine weather down the English Channel and to the Equator, which was crossed on the 30th, in 26- W. Had fair winds from thence to the Cape, which was passed on the 29th November in 43' S. Thence to Tasmania, which was sighted on the 29th December experienced light and variable weather, and made the Three Kings on Tuesday last. Met with southerly and baffling winds along the coast, and anchored as above last evening.
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 [should be Tanfield], on December 7, of consumption.[TB] The list of passengers and their luggage contains no further reference to
John Tanfield / TownfieldSo this John Tanfield apparently travelling alone died between Cape Town and Tasmania. He may be a relative but is not the John TANFIELD I am looking for
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