Names: Hovenden, James. Transcribed from the 21 April 1846 edition of The Armagh Guardian newspaper: Melancholy Death.--The remains of Major Hovenden, who appears, after for years fighting his country's battles, to have reached New South Wales, to find not an asylum where he might end his days in peace and plenty, but to perish by the most horrible of deaths--absolute starvation--have been found in the Bungarabbee Brush, on the western road. The bones were disjointed and scattered, and not a single particle of flesh remaining. His remains were found by a party who was been [sic] hunting in Bungarabbee Brush. On pursuing the search a variety of articles and a leather valise were found there, two cloth body coats, a cloth cloak, a blue cloth cap with a peak, a boot, two tooth brushes, and shaving and nail brushes, the remnants of a black silk stock, a handkerchief, and also a quantity of bones. When the peak of the cap was first found it was covered with dirt, but on cleaning it there was written, apparently with a penknife, "Frederick Hovenden died of hunger." The second boot could nowhere be found, nor could any razor. The Major had been missing about eighteen months, about which time he left Sydney, and when he neither said where he was going nor did he leave word with his agent, Mr. Nicholas James, where he could be found, and although he had been advertised, no trace could be obtained of him. The Major had been about three or four years in the colony; and when he left Sydney he had been heard to remark, that he would rather go into the bush as a shepherd than be dependant on his friends. He had recently brought a considerable sum of money with him to the colony, but had lost it.--Paramatta Chronicle, Feb. 1. ===============================