In message <b5aa7bde-43e2-4cec-aab9-6ec13fce2e9d@o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Vivien <viric@bigpond.com> wrote: > On Nov 2, 5:32 am, Graeme <Gra...@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > 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. > > Only by albatross! > It's about 20 km off the southeast coast of Tasmania and is basically > a rock rising steeply out of the sea. That's what I thought. > It sounds as though the death occurred on board ship while heading for > Hobart. > But I would have thouht the name of the ship would have been given as place of death in that case. The other thought that occurs is that it might have been the name of a house in Hobart. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>