Lost Overboard

[Puck]

It is a family rumour in my Husband's tree that Evan Lloyd was lost at sea.

Evan Lloyd was born in 1847 in Crickhowell Breconshire.
Parents were Henry Lloyd and Joan Phillips.  There was an older brother Thomas.

Through Find My Past and looking up "Deaths at Sea" at the National Archives I have found an entry No 1730 on Board of Trade Fiche

Mr. Lloyd 1st Class Passenger age 24. - lost overboard. date
31st January 1870.  The ship was the Norfolk 11920 and berthed
at Poplar 26th August 1870

I have looked up the Norfolk in Lloyd's Register and found details of the ship tonnage etc.  and the ship did sail London - Japan and return.

I have looked in the Board of Trade papers at Kew, but not been able to find the log book for the Norfolk, I am told the collection has been split between Canada and Greenwich.  The Caird museum at Greenwich is currently closed for refurbishment.

The dates for this Mr. Lloyd are correct for my Mr. Lloyd.

Would the Ship's Captain have to register the death? and would it have been registered in Poplar and when would I find these regards

Any help would be appreciated.

Puck

[lizdb]

If his death is registered in the Marine Deaths register, then it will not again be registered in the ordinary registers in Poplar. It will be one or the other. But either way the death cert might be worth getting.

Looking closer at  the info you give, it looks as if he was lost at sea in the January (and therefore death will registered as a Marine death) but the ship was back in Poplar in August.

I see he was a first class passenger. I wonder if he is mentioned on a family grave anywhere? I just say that as I had an ancestor who died on a voyage to New Zealand (we have never discovered exactly why he was sailing) but there is a memorial to him on his parents or sisters headstone.

[Puck]

Thank you for the thought that he might be registered on a family grave.  We have been to the National Library of Wales and found his parents, but we have not looked for the grave at Crickhowell, that could be quite important.  Also for the information regarding the register of the death. 

Puck