Hi Mary Al members of the new Newcastle Library have online access to the archives of several newspapers including the Newcastle Courant and The Times. I searched for "Edward McGrath", "coroner", "drowned" etc but there were no hits for Edward being drowned at that date. There was an extract about an Edward McGrath who was transported from Durham prison for 20 years. That was a few years later. Is there any possibility this could be your man? Was he "missing, presumed dead" ? Gen in NBL > I found a burial for an Edward McGrath on DUR Online Indexes and purchased the information. I then purchased the death certificate in the hope it would give me the name of informant as his wife or a member of his family, which I would recognise, but to my surprise it stated this Edward was found drowned in River Tyne in 1844, noting body found 24th September and death registered by coroner 25th September 1844. So I still don't know if he is 'my' Edward. > The registration dstrict on certificate is 'Gateshead Union', sub district 'Heworth'