Thursday, 20 September 2007

Disappearing Acts

I've been thinking about James Sutherland (1857), whom I seem to lose in 1883 when the rest of the Sutherland family emigrated to Australia. I wonder whether he perhaps died on board ship. It's possible, as deaths did occur on the emigrant ships and I can't think of anything else that would have happened to him.

There is no record of him marrying
There is no death record
I can't find anything in any of the gazettes.

And now I can't find the record for Ben Cruachan, the ship they travelled on.

Hmm - a mystery

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