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From: Edgar Barbour <>
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:36:11 GMT


Names of the men who died in the Greenland sealing disaster:

I am adding some additional information and resending due to the number of
questions I have received.

Only 25 of the 48 men who died were found. The 23 bodies never found are
identified below with an *. The men from Conception Bay were returned home
by train to be burried, most all the Bonavista/Trinity Bay men were burried
in St John's.

Name Home

1. William Kelloway Pool's Island, BB married
2. James Howell Pool's Island, BB single
3. Joseph Osmond Pool's Island, BB single
* 4. Benjamin Bowne Pool's Island, BB single
5. Thomas White Pool's Island, BB married
6. John Pinsent Safe Harbour, BB married
7. John Thomas Safe Harbour, BB married
8. Edwin Davis Safe Harbour, BB single
* 9. Albert Boland Pound Cove, BB single
* 10. George Bungay Newtown, BB married
11. Fredrick House Gooseberry Island, BB single
12. Kenneth Parsons Newtown, BB married
13. Isaac Green Newtown, BB single
14. George Norris Newtown, BB married
* 15. Herbert Norris Newtown, BB single
16. Henry Curtis Newtown, BB single
17. Charles Ralph Flat Island, BB married
* 18. Nicholas Hennessy St Brendan's, BB married
* 19. Theodore Norris Pound Cove, BB single
20. William Heath Harbour Grace, CB single
* 21. James Cheeks Newtown, BB married
22. Walter Norris Newtown, BB single
* 23. John Wicks Wesleyville, BB married
24. Edwin Hunt Cape Freels, BB single
* 25. Alex Andrews Cape Freels, BB single
26. Jacob Pond Greenspond, BB single
* 27. William Blackwood Greenspond, BB single
* 28. Matthew Wells Harbour Grace, CB married
29. John Pinsent Cape Freels, BB married
* 30. Stephen Squires Salvage, BB married
31. Richard Pynn St John's single
* 32. Lorenzo Wells Harbour Grace, CB married
33. Archibald Courage Harbour Grace, CB married
* 34. Noah Mortimer Harbour Grace, CB married
* 35. George W. Pynn Harbour Grace, CB married
* 36. William Cullen Torbay single
* 37. Thomas Ricketts Knight's Cove single
38. James Maher Quidi Vidi single
39. Alfred Newtry Carbonear, CB single
40. William Voisey Quidi Vidi single
* 41. James Mallard St John's single
* 42. Heber Ryan Ship Cove
43. Walter Murphy Carbonear, CB
* 44. George W. Pelley Hant's Harbour, TB
* 45. Jacob Conway Turk's Cove, TB
* 46. William Larder Trinity, TB
47. Willis Woolridge Trinity, TB
* 48. Ambrose Rogers Lower Island Cove, TB

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