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Death Announcements 1832-1844
Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| Surname | Stirling | | First names | Sibella | | Rank/ occupation | Wife | | Death date | 30 Aug 1844 | | Place of death | Guernsey | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | Edition | Oct 1844 | | Page number | 446 | | Detail | Sibella, wife of Major Wm. Stirling, of the Bombay Army, of Clifton House, Exeter, and youngest dau. of W.L. Hockin, esq. of Dartmouth. In the year 1836 she was shipwrecked on the uninhabited Island of Astova, where during a period of 68 days, by the good example and great exertion, under the influence of religious feeling, of herself and husband, the comforts of the crew of the shipwrecked vessel were attended to, and discipline preserved. -- On the following day, aged 6, Ellen-Mary, youngest child of the above; both of scarlet fever. |
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