If someone died outside UK???

[Harrys mum]

I've found the death of my elusive David Kirkby Ariel (brother of the even more elusive Agatha).

Sept 8th 1838 at Barbados, of yellow fever. Age 20.

Would there be any record in UK?

[Dead Rellies]

Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library

This site might help, I cant understand why there would be any records in the UK, Not unless he left a will here, I think you need to explain more about why he was over there, was he working there ? ect.

[Olde Crone Holden]

Ah now - I had someone die in Barbados, picked up from the IGI.

I didn't bother getting a death cert as it was just a side branch, but I did find his name commemorated on the family grave in England, and two of his children.

OC

[Harrys mum]

Sorry Pat,

Getting carried away after finding him.

I'd say he was working as his father was a West and East Indian trader.

He may have just been on a trip to buy sugar and spirits as they traded in those.

[Mary from Italy]

Assuming he was a British subject, you may find him in the Consular deaths abroad, on findmypast or familyrelatives. However, I don't think the indexes are complete.

[Mary from Italy]

It looks as though the burial records for that period still survive:

Caribbean Genealogy - Country Resources
Caribbean Genealogy - Resources - Barbados Parochial Registers

[Mary from Italy]

This may not have anything to do with your people, but it might be worth checking in view of the unusual name (although Ariel is presumably the given name):

Description
Name: Taylor, Ariel
Official Number: 101516
Place of Birth: Bridge Town, Barbadoes

Date 09 March 1858
Catalogue reference ADM 188/118
Dept Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Series Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services

The National Archives of the United Kingdom

[Harrys mum]

Thanks Mary..

Have emailed the records office.

The will looks interesting. Ariel is the first name, but I think I'll get it anyway as I have an Elizabeth Ariel who married a Joshua Taylor. You never know.

[Mary from Italy]

I don't think it's a will, as it says "Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services". I've never had one of those before, but I assume it's a service record.

[Harrys mum]

You're right. Might be just as interesting.

[Christine in Herts]

I don't think it's a will, as it says "Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services". I've never had one of those before, but I assume it's a service record.

I've bought several of those. They almost always give

• a description (useful to the Powers that Be for tracking down any "runners"),
• an alleged DoB and PoB (in both cases I have found inaccuracies),
• a list of the different ships in which the man served, with dates -
• and a comment on the quality of that service
• sometimes info about a pension

Christine

[Christine in Herts]

These sites may supply complementary info - descriptions of those ships, for instance:

William Loney RN - Background
NAVAL-HISTORY.NET

Christine