Hello List, Thank you Maureen for giving the Asiatic Register reference, which I didn't have. However, there are a couple of newspaper errors relating to my ancestor that I might mention. Lucy Clarke died on the 20 December 1804, Lat 30.34' north of the Cape of Good Hope. She was buried on St Helena 12 days later 1 January 1805. There is a commemorative plaque on the wall of St James Church, St Helena which gives Lucy's death date at age 29 years. The Colonel Clarke and his family were on board the 'David Scott' Thanks Helen (Brisbane) Hello List Frances may be interested in the following death entry from The Asiatic Annual Register: Volume 8 1806 Part 1, pages 183-184 which has some similarities to her George Cumming. The death occurred off the Cape of Good Hope. The body was preserved in spirits and this person was buried at St Helena seven months later. May 1805 : At sea, on board the David Stott, East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope, Mrs. Clerk, wife to Lieut. Col. Clark, of the Madras establishment. Her amiable and condescending manners were such as must insure lasting respect,, and her death will be long regretted, particularly by her numerous and respectable friends at that presidency. She has left a respectable husband to bewail the loss of a most affectionate wife, and six infant children of a most attentive and fond parent. Her remains were preserved in spirits until the 31st December following, when they were interred at St. Helena, with all suitable attention, and followed to the grave by all the passengers of the fleet, and the greater part of the inhabitants of that island. Cheers Maureen (Sydney)