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*The GRO marine births and deaths indexes images can be browsed without charge at familyrelatives.com, but it is not possible to search for a specific name, as the images have not been transcribed. See [[Chaplains Returns#External linksAccessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|Chaplains Returns-External links]] for more details about this website.*The indexes have are also been microfilmed by the available as [[LDSFamilySearch]]microfiches, which may become digitally available by approximately the end of 2020. Details of deaths are available on fiches See [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=726184&disp=Index+to+marine+death+returns+%28deaths+++ 6137189 -6137266Chaplains Returns#Accessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|Chaplains Returns]] and births on [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframesetfor more details.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=731089&disp=Index+to+marine+births+%28births+at+sea++ 6137268 -6137322]

Some of these records are available on [[LDSFamilySearch]] microfilm . Index records from some microfilms have been transcribed and the microfilms have been digitised <ref>LDS Microfilm catalogue entry [https://www.familysearch.org/engsearch/librarycatalog/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=268289&disp=Original+certificates+of+baptisms+and+ma%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Original certificates of baptisms and marriages of British subjects abroad, solemnized or registered at diplomatic representations]</ref>

Note, some records from the London Metropolitan Archives are available on the pay website Ancestry, but not currently (March 2014) the overseas records which include some records at sea. It is not known whether these overseas records will be digitized in the future. Also it is not known whether any of these LDS microfilms have been transcribed.

A number of newspapers in the United Kingdom from 1824 into the 1860s contained a Monthly Military Obituary, being a list of names of officers. Includes deaths overseas or in transit (for example on board ship). Available in online newspaper collections including [[findmypast]].<ref>Clark, Noel. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india.rootsweb.com/INDIAthread/2016-03113649/1458986087 The "Monthly Military Obituary"] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List '' 26 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 201627 July 2019.</ref>

*[httphttps://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/British_Births,_Marriages_and_Deaths_Overseas British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas] Family Search Wiki. There are some references to events at sea*[httphttps://wwwarchives.history.ac.uk/ghguildhallmanuscripts/overseas.htm Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section. Leaflet Guides to Records: Births, Marriages And Deaths Overseas] These records have since been transferred to the London Metropolitan Archives.

*[httphttps://wwwmedia.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcastsindex.php/bmdtracing-births-and-deaths-at-sea.htm / National Archives Podcast – Tracing Births and Deaths at Sea]

*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qI1JAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA183 Pages 183-184 ''Asiatic Annual Register for 1806'']. Under a heading Deaths, May 1805, "At sea. On board the ''David Scott'', East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope, Mrs Clerk, wife to Lieut. Col. Clark, of the Madras establishment. ... '''Her remains were preserved in spirits''' until the 31st December following, when they were interred at St. Helena... " The date of death of May 1805 is inaccurate, and it is believed the time difference between death and burial was much shorter, a normal ship's voyageas Mrs Lucy Clarke died 20 December 1804.<ref> findmypast has a burial record for “Mrs Lucy Clark, Passenger, Ship Dav. Scott” for burial on 1 January 1805. It is believed there is also some correspondence on the Also see Jackson, Helen. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1661742/ INDIA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 235] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' Archive, not currently (2018/02/02) available20 July 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2019.</ref>