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Originally Posted by Coquet
The papers don't seem to mention the shipwreck itself as a separate event. I would like a date for the wreck, it could be earlier than the 9th.
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I might just have found it, now all we need to do is work out the date
I tried searches in Dec using storm and Goodwill, nothing, used "Dundee", since one of burials mentioned it.
Caledonian Mercury Thursday 19 Dec 1754 but reporting news from Edinburgh of 17 Dec.
"We have advice, that the ship of Captain Jobson of Dundee, from London, was lost
on Monday se'en-night upon the Carr Rocks near Cokket Island; the whole cargo, 28 passengers and the cabbin boy all perished. Among the passengers were a Serjeant and 20 Private men belonging to the Regiment now lying at Perth, but six of whom were happily saved, by means of the wreck."
I think that makes it Monday 9th Dec...so buried immediately.