Walter Sayers Edmunds was the 3rd mate on the Lady Mary Pelham which arrived on 26 September 1836 from Liverpool and Kangaroo Island. The bloke died on 24 October 1836, after the vessel had left for the South Sea fishing grounds on 15 October, and was buried on 27 October by the Colonial Chaplain at St David's cemetery where his headstone still survives. Does anyone know where I could find his cause of death and/or his place of death. Do hospital records or coroner's records for that period survive? To the best of my knowledge he had no friends or family in VDL yet he had a headstone notwithstanding the fact that his shipmates had departed before he died. Regards Chris in Adelaide --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

   Chris, tried to locate more info on him, but best info was on his inscription: Walter Sayer EDMUNDS Fourth son of Mr George EDMUNDS of Worthing Sussex England who departed this life on the 24 October 1836  Aged 24 years   did find a christening index record for him: Walter Sayns Edmunds   https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J7R9-8XH  Walter Sayers Edmunds  https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J7R9-C88   cheers, elaine On Sunday, June 15, 2014 6:11 AM, Chris Ward <ceejay@internode.on.net> wrote: Walter Sayers Edmunds was the 3rd mate on the Lady Mary Pelham which arrived on 26 September 1836 from Liverpool and Kangaroo Island.  The bloke died on 24 October 1836, after the vessel had left for the South Sea fishing grounds on 15 October, and was buried on 27 October by the Colonial Chaplain at St David's cemetery where his headstone still survives. Does anyone know where I could find his cause of death and/or his place of death.  Do hospital records or coroner's records for that period survive?  To the best of my knowledge he had no friends or family in VDL yet he had a headstone notwithstanding the fact that his shipmates had departed before he died. Regards Chris in Adelaide --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com/ ------------------------------- AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message