Chris, The details that you wanted. Information on Walter Henry Oliver KETCH and Elizabeth Maud YOUNG's came from the book "HMS Bounty Descendants" Oct 1991 Paul Lareau. The submitter was ARCHER, Ross A. 377014-0829100184113. PO Box 79-169 Royal Heights Auckland 1203, +649-832-4456, ross.archer@clear.net.nz, Date 30 Aug 2000. The CD states that the Marriage took place on Pitcairn Island but there is no date mentioned. Regards Colin Chamberlain. SOG-UK-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:28:40 +0100 From: "Chris Watts" <ml@ctwatts.plus.com> To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: PETCH = COFFIN, Pictcairn, 1905. Does anybody have access to Pedigree Resource File CD No.19? I am interested in details given there about the marriage of Walter Henry PETCH to Esther Godfrey COFFIN on Pitcairn Island. I have found the entry from familysearch.org but no date or source is given. What is said, if anything, on the CD? Her Pin is 378516; his is 378412. I am trying to contact the submitter. There are a number of databases on the web that look as if they are derived from this submission and they give a marriage date of 24 May 1905, on the ship County of Dumfries, off Pitcairn. I have checked out the original official logbook of that ship and they record that the marriage took place at 1:30pm on 23 April 1905. It is also noted that the groom intends to register the marriage with the High Commissioner's Court when the papers arrive in Pitcairn. So the later date may refer to this. The archives of the Western Pacific High Commission are with the University of Auckland and the librarian there is checking out this angle for me. I am interested in this marriage as an example for a paper that I am giving at the AAFHO Congree in Darwin at the very start of June. TIA Chris Watts