"Graeme" <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:174a91b350%Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk... > In message <7l68vcF3crobkU1@mid.individual.net> > "MargM" <genknut@exemail.com.au> wrote: > >> >> "Graeme" <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:9d5580b350%Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk... >> > Was Mewstone, Tasmania ever inhabited? >> > >> > The reason I ask is I've come across a daeth notice for a Martha >> > Lewis in the >> > Hobart Mercury for 11th August 1870 giving that as her place of >> > death. >> > >> > -- > > Might be a help to know her brother was John Kenrick Lewis, surgeon > of > Hobart. Graeme He died 26 Oct 1876 aged 57, Hobart see also : http://www.medicalpioneers.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?detail=1&id=1049 and left a will http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=9 ( indexed as Kevrich) I just checked the AUS AVR CDs which are combined early BDM records for VIC., TAS, NSW & WA . Only Martha LEWIS to d in 1870 was in Victoria , aged 40, dau of Benjamin BACKHOUSE and Sarah THOMPSON Looks like she was just missed ?? Or garbled indexing to blame ................ Was all hand written Bye -- MargM Beautiful NSW Central Coast NSW