Ed, Have you looked at the overseas deaths in the British General Register Office indexes? These are on-line at <www.findmypast.com> Chris > > From: "Ed Rowlands" <edrowlan@bigpond.net.au> > Date: 2007/04/18 Wed AM 11:51:05 BST > To: <dakenny@ozemail.com.au>, <srilanka@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] Genealogies > > Hi David, > I have been trying to get to the bottom of a mystery about the death of my > Great-Grand-Father (Richard William ROWLANDS) in Ceylon. I have tried > church records, Army records, genealogists and even the DBU, but no success. > Seeing your email made a reference to the Times database, I was wondering > whether his death may have been reported in the news papers of the day or > that there may be a death notice. I have been given a date of death of 23 > April 1888 by one of my relatives. His last recorded entry in the > Ferguson's Directory shows that he was living in Nuwara Eliya in 1887, was > working for Bryrd & Co who also had an office in Kandy. Your help would be > greatly appreciated. > Regards, > Ed.Rowlands > Yarrawonga, > Victoria. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Kenny" <dakenny@ozemail.com.au> > To: "Gay Fielding" <gayze@tpg.com.au> > Cc: <srilanka@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:47 PM > Subject: Re: [SRILANKA] William Small > > > > Hi Gay, > > > > I have an unlimited access subscription to the Times database, as I > > research the UK, India and Ceylon in my family research, Smallwood family. > > > > I am happy to do lookup's for you, just need to narrow the date down for > > me... > > > > Regards > > > > David > > > > > > Gay Fielding wrote: > > > >> Hi David, > >> I see you are in Australia.(I am in Queensland) ..so how do you access > >> the Times Newspaper from Australia.?. > >> Perhaps the death of my John Campbell, and his wife Mary Campbell may > >> be posted there as well... > >> and even the death of his son Colin who died while surveying the > >> Jungle in Ceylon. > >> And the death of his other son, Archibald Glenlyon Campbell, a teacher > >> at the Royal College Colombo. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Gay > >> Research Names: > >> http://www.perthdps.com/research/fie01.html > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SRILANKA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam