Can anyone on the list help me track down a date for the death of my g. great grandfather John Laugharne(sometimes Larne) who was born in 1829 to Thomas and Mary Laugharne of Trap Melyn, Dinas Cross? He married his first cousin Mary Laugharne from the Bridge End Inn, Dinas Cross in 1857. In October1869 she was married again to William Thomas and the marriage certificate states she was a widow but I have looked through all the death indexes from 1865, when their last child would have been conceived, through to 1870, including Deaths abroad and Deaths at sea, as he was a mariner, but so far have found nothing. Mary and John's branches of the Laugharne family are buried in adjacent plots in the cemetery at Gideon but, although I have been able to find a MI for Mary's second husband William Thomas who died in Melbourne, Australia, I have yet to discover an MI for John. All I have to go on is a family story that Mary caused a bit of a scandal by going to her second wedding still wearing the black armband for her first husband, so his death must have been sometime in 1869. Family legend also says he was drowned in an estuary in France but I have no proof. Both the Welsh Mariner's website database and the Swansea Mariners website have a John Laugharne born in Dinas Cross in 1829 who was rescued from the wreck of The Speedwell off Humber in October 1868. If this is the same John Laugharne, then he was still alive a year before Mary re-married, so I am intrigued... Vivien http://www.vivienboyes.co.uk