In message <72727cfd-883c-4346-8b62-1aab3f16a04e@y10g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Vivien <viric@bigpond.com> wrote: > On Nov 3, 12:17 am, Graeme <Gra...@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > As to the censuses, I can't reliably identify a specific Martha Lewis, it's > > too common a name. > > Graeme: Another resource to check is the Deaths at Sea Index. > Findmypast has the index for the time period you want. Unfortunately > I don't have a current subscription for a lookup. > If it was the Mewstone off Tasmania then her death *should* appear in > this index. Good idea. > > I should add that I've lived in Tasmania for 49 years and I can't ever > recall a house by the name of Mewstone. It's not an unlikely name for a house in the area but could well have been changed after she died. > However, I note that shipping reports in the local 19th century > papers frequently mention ship sightings "off Mewstone", so it seems > that it was a well known landmark - often the place of first sighting > of a ship from England as it rounded the South East Cape heading for > Hobart. > I've been trying to find the island on Google Earth but it is not labelled. Is it the small island south of Fort Direction? Or is it the bigger island to the east? -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>

Graeme wrote: > In message <72727cfd-883c-4346-8b62-1aab3f16a04e@y10g2000prg.googlegroups.com> > Vivien <viric@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 3, 12:17 am, Graeme <Gra...@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> As to the censuses, I can't reliably identify a specific Martha Lewis, it's >>> too common a name. >> Graeme: Another resource to check is the Deaths at Sea Index. >> Findmypast has the index for the time period you want. Unfortunately >> I don't have a current subscription for a lookup. >> If it was the Mewstone off Tasmania then her death *should* appear in >> this index. > > Good idea. > >> I should add that I've lived in Tasmania for 49 years and I can't ever >> recall a house by the name of Mewstone. > > It's not an unlikely name for a house in the area but could well have been > changed after she died. > >> However, I note that shipping reports in the local 19th century >> papers frequently mention ship sightings "off Mewstone", so it seems >> that it was a well known landmark - often the place of first sighting >> of a ship from England as it rounded the South East Cape heading for >> Hobart. >> > > I've been trying to find the island on Google Earth but it is not labelled. > Is it the small island south of Fort Direction? Or is it the bigger island to > the east? > Put -43.738 146.371 into Google Earth/Map. It will be the green arrow in Map. Paul