Colleen My gggfather has the same address as yours !! He also had an inquest which I could not find officially. BUT . . . at the State Library in Macquarie St. Sydney I looked up the Goulburn papers and there in the last column was a full (marvellous stuff) report of the inquest which was held in the local hotel. Even said - he wais to his wife that he was glad he did not need to take the engine out first thing in the morning (he was an engine driver on the railway) and that his wife gave him some gruel with brandy when he was going to bed not feeling well the previous evening and when she checked him at 9 p.m. he was dead. - It really made them very much *alive* to me. Be prepared to read the papers from column to column - there were few headlines very very small print and few paragraphs. Could take a while to locate. Maybe a packed lunch would be the go!! Very good luck to you Mary-Anne -----Original Message----- From: phil walker [mailto:pcwalker@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, 9 January 2001 13:24 To: AUSTRALIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Goulburn christmas day drowning I have a ggg -Alexander CAMPBELL who drowned on 25 December 1846 - he is buried at Mortis St Old Cemerty Goulburn (no headstone) and is late of Frogs Hole. Two questions - one does Frog Hole still exsist in the Goulburn area. two: you would think there would have been an inquest - if so does anyone know where that would have taken place and by who and records kept? Interesting he drowned and was buried on the same day - what were the newspapers around at that time and how could I 'look up' to see if he rated a mention? with many thanks Colleen Central Coast ______________________________