Hi Gillian Perhaps also try a Rootsweb list that concentrates on PUERTO-RICO: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/PR/misc.html#PUERTO-RICO and seek local advise ? Regards Paul On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:00:34 +1100, Gillian Mauchan via <mariners@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Hi > >I am still trying to track down the death of Capt Andrew Gowans - What I >know to date is that he Captained ships between Greenock and St John's, the >latest ships Agreement list I can find for him is Captaining the Maiden >Voyage of the Walter Bain which he leaves after that journey in late 1851. >As previously stated the family tombstone has him Lost at Se in Jan 1855. > >I recently came across this article in a Greenock newspaper dated April 17 >1855. > >"Intelligence has reached town of the melancholy death of Capt. Gowans of St >John's Newfoundland, by the upsetting of a boat at Purto Rico. The deceased >was well known in Greenock, having been for many years in the Employment of >Messrs Kerr & McBride." > >This tends to support my theory that the family had relocated to St John's >sometime between 1851 and 1855. > >Any ideas about how to track down a death of the island of Puerto Rico? > >Thanks Gillian. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message 50° 33' N, 2° 26' W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html