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. Saturday 18 May 1844 - At the Paterson River Hotel, on the 17th instant, Mr. Moses King, in the 87th year of his age. Monday 20 May 1844 - At Dungog, on the 23rd April, 1844, William Mackey, the infant son of Mr. T. A. Johnston, aged six months. Wednesday 22 May 1844 - On Saturday, the 18th May, at Luskintyre, Hunter River, Elizabeth, the wife of W. Todhunter, aged 37 years, leaving a family of nine children to lament her loss. Patricia