Hello Karen - Ask, and ye shall receive... There's a follow-up article in the 3rd Sept 1858 West Briton which answers some of your questions; I'll post that directly.   I've noticed that when some of my rellies died inconveniently away from land, memorial stones were erected. But not always.  So it depended on your family, and their intentions.  As to the newspapers, you could visit the British newspaper archive (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search) where the Royal Cornwall Gazette from 1801 is available. It's a fee-based website.   What I've found most helpful is this list from Wikipedia:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia;List_of_online_newspaper_archives#England - it gives you quite a few choices, and might trigger some thoughts. For instance, our FHC has free access to ProQuest, so that route would be great if the paper is covered in the needed timeframe. Hope this helps! Julia M. West Briton Transcriptions, 1836-1856 at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad St. Austell Area History and Genealogy at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staustell > Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 17:02:41 +0800 > From: "Karen Murdock" <klmurdock@iinet.net.au> > Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Weekly Newspaper 27th August, 1858. News. >  > Hello, I am wondering if there is any way to find out more detail about the > loss of 7 lives at the Porkellis United Mine as mentioned in the Weekly > Newspaper 27th August, 1858 below? I have seen a large poster about this > accident previously. I had Dunstan ancestors mining in that mine, and would > like to know the names of the two Dunstans mentioned. Were the bodies ever > found? Was there an inquest? I have not found Deaths registered for the two > Dunstans. Would there be a Death certificate if the bodies were never > retrieved? > My Dunstans were children of Benjamin Dunstan and Jane Johns, listed in the > 1841 census as at Wendron, with my great great grandmother as Jane Dunstan, > aged 5/6, and her younger sister Mary as a one year old. There were perhaps > 3 brothers and another sister on the census, while an elder sister Ann was > in service elsewhere. > The parents and youngest two daughters of this family migrated to South > Australia in 1847, but returned in 1951, leaving Jane in Australia. She > refused to return as she had been sea-sick on the voyage out. She married > Thomas William Harvey(changed to Harvy), using the maiden name of Sarah Jane > Dunstan, in 1851. She was only 15 and family history says she did so without > permission, by changing the names for the banns. > I don't know how to send this to the list to be distributed, so would > appreciate your help in doing this. > Karen Murdock > Perth, Western Austalia > klmurdock@iinet.net.au >