This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2AIBAIB/309.1 Message Board Post: John Goodman SIMPKINS died 24 Sept 1868, at the Melbourne Hospital, aged 46. I have not found wife's death or remarriage. John was a mariner, he is buried with infants, William and Annie in the Melbourne General Cemetery. John and Mary married Dec 1854, they had five children..... William Charles, b 1856 in Adelaide, South Australia, d 1861 Melbourne [my line] John Henry, b 1859 Emerald Hill, Victoria; married Esther Maria HOWELL (born Tasmania 1864 to George HOWELL and Mary Ann MCLAUGHLIN ) They had 9 children. Alice May, b 1861 Vic, may have married Frank LUSH. Annie, b 1864, d 1865 Thomas Goodman, b 1866 Port Melbourne, no further details.