Hi Pam BDMs at sea are found in separate GRO (General Register Office, England & Wales) indices - namely (I think) because the emigrant ships were registered in Britain, supposedly all through Lloyds. Registers were kept by the ships' captains and submitted on their return to Britain. GRO BMD indices are online through FindMyPast: Your Thomas has been mistranscribed as TOLENDEN. Deaths at sea, 1781-1968 Transcription First name(s) Thomas Last name Tolenden Gender Male Birth year - Death year 1874 Death date 8 Apr 1874 Age 20 Cause of death Erysipelas of leg Vessel name Halcione Country Great Britain Archive Reference BT 158 Box 4 and 5 Page 246 (left) Record set Deaths at sea, 1781-1968 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Deaths & burials Collections from United Kingdom Presumably this voyage was bringing immigrants as part of the Vogel immigration scheme. If so, you may well be able to find a little more information from the Surgeon's report in ArchivesNZ. (There may be other files pertaining to the voyage, too). IM (Immigration files) Passenger list here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/Halcione1874.htm Reference: Archives New Zealand IM15/120 Archives New Zealand IM 5/4/9 No 96 Hawkes Bay Herald July 7th 1874 Newspaper report here (Thomas reported as TAMDEN): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/ArrivalHalcione18 74.htm Will email you a copy of the original death entry from FMP. HTH Blanche Charles Kapiti Coast (Wellington) New Zealand NORTON Family History Unlimited http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanchec/indexdby.htm Stapenhill Online Resources http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanchec/StapOPC.htm East Midlands General Baptist History http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blanchec/EMidBaps.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 , LittleMiracles <[email protected]>, wrote: Thomas Idenden died on board the Halcione between England Mar 24 1874 and Napier 10 July 1874. Have checked the English BDM and the New Zealand ones and can't find him. Is there a special file some where that covers those that die at sea. The Captain of the Halcione also died, in the report on arrival in Napier the paper stated he was buried at sea. Nothing about Idenden except he died. Any help would be appreciated Pam ------------------------------