CAROLINE

Article in the South Eastern Gazette - Tues 04 Sept. 1849 in the Births, Marriages and Death column. DEATHS. "May 22 (1849), on board the Caroline, on his passage to Australia, Richard Sills, second son of Mr. Richard Morley of Ashford." The newspaper death report had a couple of errors Richard Sills Morley was in fact the 4th son of Mr. WILLIAM Morley, a grocer of Ashford and his wife Mary Eliza, nee Sills. Richard Sills Morley was aged 22 when he died, he was baptised in Ashford, Kent, on the 27th Sept. 1826. The cause of death is unknown as yet. Caroline set off from London on the 24th April 1949, and was 30 days into the voyage to Port Adelaide when Richard died with another 38 sailing days to go before reaching her destination on the 31st August, so perhaps Richard Sills Morley was buried at sea ?