While gathering information to be indexed into www.ryersonindex.org I found the following deaths relating to the Hawkesbury List area in the Sydney Morning Herald. This notice is damaged and very difficult to read I have placed the most probable missing words in brackets after the ?? Saturday 21 December 1844 - At his residence, East Maitland, on the 18th instant, after a short ??? (but) severe illness, Mr. Alfred Skinner, for ?????? (formerly) Witney, in the county of Oxford ?????? (shire) Patricia