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Friend now has this certificate for Mary's death at sea.She was British, but there is nothing to positively identify her as being her relative other than an Auckland , NZ address, which might be a family home.

Can anyone help with occupants of 114 Victoria Street, Auckland, which is shown as her last address, please?

Gwyn

Shirley
You are a gem.
Thank you so much for this.
My friend will be so pleased. :-)

Gwyn

Looks very much like her AND there is a death cer!,




Overseas registration event: Death

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Name: BELCHAMBER, Mary
Vessel: Rimutaka
Country: At sea
Year: 1898
Page: 108
Age at death: 78
Record source: GRO Marine Death Indices (1846 to 1902)


You can get it from the GRO. Specify its an overseas death and the form will accommodate the death refs

Interesting............

I have just been sent this link, which makes it a bit more possible that this might be the missing Mary Ann

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP18980301.2.44.2

Are there any more details of her on any of the sites please.?

Gwyn

Thank you for looking Shirley.

Friend at one time headed a one-name-study for the surname, so will probably have checked and will know of Mary Ann who died in 1890, but I will tell her.. thank you.

She obviously didn't travel out in 1892 with John and Emily and their family, but if it wasn't John Ernest's mother,Mary Ann who died on the ship, we would still like to know who she was.

Gwyn

Have you checked this one out


Name: Mary Ann Belchamber
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1822
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1890
Age at Death: 68
Registration District: Woolwich
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 799

Only finding the 1892 emigration same vessel


Britain: outbound passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960 - person transcript

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Name: Arthur BELCHAMBER
Date of departure: 31 March 1892
Port of departure: London
Destination port: Wellington
Destination country: New Zealand
Date of Birth: 1886 (calculated from age)
Age: 6
Marital Status:
Sex: Male
Occupation:
Notes:
Passenger recorded on: Page 1 of 4
The following people with the same last name travelled on this voyage: -
Mrs E BELCHAMBER
Infant BELCHAMBER
John E BELCHAMBER
Sophia BELCHAMBER
Ship: RIMUTAKA
Official Number:
Master's name: E A Findlay
Steamship Line: The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited
Where bound: Wellington, New Zealand
Square feet:
Registered tonnage: 4473
Passengers on voyage: 79

Ship Rimutaka sailed from London 2 February bound for NZ.

Trying to help a friend identify a lady who died during the voyage, as mentioned in a newspaper.................................

...Wellington....Thursday..
'During the voyage of the Rimutaka from London on February 19, Mrs Belchamber of Auckland, 78 years of age, second saloon passenger died of heart disease.....................................

Would you read this as the lady having previously lived in NZ or just on her way there?
Friend has a BELCHAMBER family who emigrated there in 1892, but has always wondered what happened to the man's mother b. 1823, as she wasn't with them in 1891 census in West Ham and she's never found a death for her.
Her name was Mary Ann nee COPPLE

Any help identifying where Mary Ann went and if it was her who died onboard would be great please.

Gwyn