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*The GRO Marine births and deaths indexes are Searchable on [[findmypast]] (pay website). See a comment in The National Archives, the section above, or for more details, see [[Chaplains Returns#Accessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|'''Chaplains Returns''']].
*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#Accessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|'''Chaplains Returns''']] for more details about this website and how to access these records online on pay websites.
*The indexes are also available as [[FamilySearch]] microfiches, which perhaps may become digitally available by approximately the end of 2020during 2021, or later. See [[Chaplains Returns#Accessing the above British Army Overseas Indexes|Chaplains Returns]] for more details.
==London Metropolitan Archives==
See [[Newspapers]].
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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200507050402/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/113649/ The "Monthly Military Obituary"] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 26 March 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2019, archived.</ref>
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===Historical books online===
*[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, as 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. Also see Jackson, Helen. [https://listsweb.rootswebarchive.comorg/web/20210202224946/hyperkittyhttps:/list/indiamlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread/=1661742/ INDIA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 235] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 20 July 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2019, archived.</ref>
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