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     Florence Emma Mary Symonds's birth was registered in the quarter ending December 1856 in the St. Thomas, Devon registration district.^2,3 She was the daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds GCB and Prestwood Mary Wolrige.² Florence Emma Mary Symonds married Francis Seymour Allen, son of Seymour Phillips Allen, on 10 January 1878 in St. James's, Plymouth.¹

     Francis H.M. Symonds was born in 1882 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, twin.¹ He was the son of Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI and Maria Louisa (Unknown).¹

     Harry Gordon Symonds was born circa 1879 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands.¹ He was the son of Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI and Maria Louisa (Unknown).¹ Harry Gordon Symonds died on 5 March 1916 in Pas de Calais, France, serving as a private in the 11th Bn. The Middlesex Regiment. His name appears on the Loos Memorial. The Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery, and commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. Loos-en-Gohelle is a village 5 kilometres north-west of Lens, and Dud Corner Cemetery is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, to the north-east of the N43 the main Lens to Bethune road.²

     Capt. Herbert Frank G. D'Arcy Symonds. Of The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). He was born on 14 April 1899 in Steyning, Sussex.^1,3 He was the son of Jermyn D'Arcy Travers Symonds and Beatrice Mary Ledsam.² Capt. Herbert Frank G. D'Arcy Symonds married Hester Dorothy Cook, daughter of Rev. Thomas William Cook, on 29 January 1929 in St. Gabriel's, Pimlico, London.¹ Capt. Herbert Frank G. D'Arcy Symonds died on 8 July 1936 in Egypt at the age of 37 He was killed as a passenger in a Valentia which crashed on a night approach into Mersa Matruh. The date of this accident was recorded as 7 July 1936.^1,4

     Jermyn Symonds was baptised on 28 December 1726 at Horringer, Suffolk.¹ He was the son of Rev. John Symonds and Mary Spring.¹ Jermyn Symonds probably died young.

     Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI was born on 19 October 1820 in Boldre, Hampshire.³ He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI was christened on 6 August 1822 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire, after the wedding of his Aunt to Alexander Gordon.⁴ He married firstly Susan Campbell Kennedy, daughter of John Campbell Kennedy, on 26 September 1850 at Belfast.⁵ Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI married secondly Maria Louisa (Unknown) circa 1876.⁶ Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI appears on the census of 4 April 1881 at 8 The Terrace, Grosvenor Street, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, where he is enumerated with his wife and four children (and three servants). He is described as Major Gen. R M (Retired).⁶ He died on 14 December 1897 in 5 Alfred Place, St. Andrew, Plymouth, at the age of 77.⁷
He entered the Marines in 1837, obtained his lieutenant's commission in 1841, and was promoted to captain in 1851. He served with the Marines against the Carlists on the north coast of Spain. He was also with the Baltic expedition in 1855, for which he received the medal, and engaged with the batteries at the bombardment of Sveaborg on August 9. In 1858-60 he served in China with the expeditionary force, including the occupation of Canton, the campaign in the North of China, the action of the Sinho, the taking of Tonghu, and the storming and capture of the North Taku forts. For these services he was mentioned in dispatches, and received his brevet rank of major and the medals with two clasps. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1867, and major-general in 1869 in which year he retired. He was awarded a Greenwich Hospital pension in 1877

COURT-MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT SYMONDS, R.M. Plymouth, August 15. - This morning, at nine o'clock, a naval court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Impregnable, 104, for the purpose of trying Jermyn Charles Symonds, a first lieutenant of Royal Marines, on the following charges :-
1st. For that the said first Lieutenant Jermyn Charles Symonds, of her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, while borne on the books of her Majesty's ship Trincomalee, in commission, did not, on the 4th of April, 1850, return to the said ship, then being in the harbour of St. Jago de Cuba, until after eleven o'clock p. m. that day, whereas he ought to have I returned on board the said ship at eight o'clock on the evening of that day.
2. For that the said First Lieutenant, Jermyn Charles Symonds, while so borne as aforesaid, when he returned to the said ship after eleven o'clock p.m. of the said day, as aforesaid, did force his way on board the said ship, when, ordered by the officer of the watch and sentry on the gangway of the said ship to keep off.

The Court vas composed of the following officers: - President, Lord John Hay, C.B., Commodore of the first class, and second in command of her Majesty's ships and vessels at this port; Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, C.B., of the Impregnable; Captain Nias, C.B., of the Agincourt; Captain William Hope Johnstone, of the Albion ; and Captain Augustus L. Kuper, of the Thetis. Mr. William Eastlake, officiated as deputy-judge advocate. The usual warrants for ordering the holding of a court-martial having been read, tho prisoner pleaded not guilty to both charges. The first witness then called, was Lieut. John Seacombe, who said : I was first lieutenant of the Trincomalee on the 4th April last, at St. Jago de Cuba. The prisoner was borne on the ship's books, and was doing duty on hoard that ship. During the prosecutor's absence from that ship on that day I gave prisoner leave to go on shore. I acquainted him thait he must be on board by eight p.m., telling him that it was the captain's orders that everybody should be on board. He did not return at that time. I reported his absence to the captain on my reporting my usual rounds a few minutes after nine o'clock. I gave other officers leave on that day. They all returned at the time, to the best of my knowledge, with the exception of Mr. Bastow, the acting mate; but I have, for the first time to-day, officially known that he was out of the ship-so much so, that on the captain asking me at nine o'clock on the evening of the 4th of April, if all the officers were on board, I told him they were all on board, with the exception of the prisoner.
By the President: It was not the practice of the ship to name any particular time to be on board, when giving officers leave. On every occasion when the ship was under sailing orders, the officers were desired to be on board at eight o'clock. Mr. Bastow might have got leave to be later, as the captain was on shore; but when the other officers came on board, I thought that he was amongst them.
By Captain Johnstone: I was not on deck when the prisoner returned that night.
By Captain Sir T. Maitland: I said publicly at the mess table, that there was no leave after eight o'clock. I don't think that I gave prisoner clearly and distinctly to understand that the ship was under sailing orders, but I said, "You know the orders."
By the President: l am not positive that the prisoner was at the mess table when I gave the orders.
By the Prisoner: At the time, I did not know that Mr. Bastow came on board with you, but I heard it some time afterwards rumoured that there was some person in the boat with you when you came on board on that occasion. When the officer of the watch and the sergeant of the Marines made their report to me the next morning, neither of them mentioned anything about Mr. Bastow being in the boat. I said to Mr. Bastow a day or two after that, when I heard that there was some one in the boat, I thought he was the likely man, and it was lucky for him that I did not know it.
Second Lieutenant Charles Goodwin Fagin stated that on the 4th April, on the captain leaving the deck, he ordered witness to allow no boat alongside without the captain's permission The prisoner got on board during his watch about twelve o'clock. The boat that the prisoner was in was hailed before she came alongside, and was ordered to lay off. After the boat had been hailed by the sentry on the port gangway several times, the mate of the watch, Mr. Dent, made a report to witness, and in consequence of that report he went over to the port gangway, and saw the shore-boat, at a little distance from the ship, with the sitters in her. The sentry at the port gangway was standing at the time in the gangway. Witness immediately ordered Mr. Dent upon no account to allow the boat alongside until he had reported the circumstance to Captain Warren. Witness went below, and Captain Warren ordered no shore-boat to come alongside till daylight, or after. Witness at once went on deck towards the port gangway, where he saw the prisoner talking to the *[line missing]* the night before had forced the sentry's post on the port gangway.
By Captain Johnstone: When I saw the prisoner on deck, Mr. Dent reported that the sentry's post had been forced by the prisoner, or words to that effect.
By Sir T. Maitland: I saw the boat at the end of the swinging boom; there was at the time a light breeze, and it was starlight.
Albert Dent examined: I was mate of the Trincomalee on the 4th of April last at St. Jago de Cuba. I was then officer of the watch. A boat came alongside about seven bells, in which was the prisoner. I heard her hailed, and ordered to lay off before she got alongside. In my opinion she was sufficiently near to hear the hail to keep off. The officer of the watch went down to report it to the captain, and during his absence I had charge of the deck, and while he was away I looked over the gangway, and said to the prisoner, "You must not come up the side until the officer of the watch has seen the captain" I walked aft, to see if the officer of the watch was coming, and on returning towards the gangway I saw the prisoner standing on the gangway. I told him he would get into trouble, it being the captain's order that no boat should come alongside. The officer of the watch then returned.
By Sir T. Maitland: The prisoner came up the side of the vessel, but I did not see the sentry oppose him.
By the Prisoner: When I reported to the officer of the watch that the boat was alongside, he was leaning on the netting, on the starboard side of the quarter-deck, by the main rigging. I did not hear him intimate to you, in any way, that you were not to come on board or alongside.
Sergeant Smith, a non-commissioned officer, proved that he was on deck on the night in question when the boat came alongside, and that he heard it said that no one was to come on board, and that after that the prisoner came on deck.
By the Court: The orders were given clearly, loudly, and distinctly to the boat to keep off, and for no one to come on board.
Private Slater, of the Royal Marines, fully corroborated this.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The court having been cleared for a short time, The prisoner made a statement to the effect that be did not force his way on board on the night in question. But he believed there was a strange feeling exhibited towards him by having him kept four months' in confinement, without asking him for an explanation. When he was alongside in the boat, the midshipman of the watch looked over the side, and, laughing, said, "You must not come onboard," and he thought it was a joke of his, and he treated it as such by walking on board immediately after. He then called John Parker, the quartermaster of the watch, who stated that the officer of the watch was asleep in the Jacob's ladder when the boat was first hailed. Mr. Symonds was not made a prisoner of while he was there. He heard a reply from the boat after the hail, which was " aye, aye."
Private Robert Wilcher fully corroborated this statement, and The prisoner then called the midshipman, Mr. Fortescue, who denied laughing when he looked over the side.
Louis Bastow was also called, and a question was put to him by the prisoner, "Were you in the boat with me on the night of the 4th of April last at St. Jago de Cuba ?"
The President: You need not answer any question that will tend to criminate yourself.
Witness: Then I decline to answer.
Prisoner: I shall ask nothing else.
Private James Bridle deposed to the prisoner not being taken into custody when he came on board.
The court was then cleared for two hours, and on its reopening the Court declared the first charge to be in part proved, and the second charge to be fully proved ; and adjudged the prisoner to lose two years' rank as a lieutenant, and to be severely reprimanded, and he was reprimanded accordingly. The court then broke up.

A Gallant Officer restored to his Rank.- Her Majesty has ordered that, in consequence of distinguished services performed by Captain Jermyn Charles Symonds, of the Royal Marine forces, while serving with the Royal Marine brigade in China, that officer shall be restored to his original rank in the corps. Captain Symonds was, we understand, tried by a naval court-martial on some trifling charges some years back while serving on board her Majesty's ship Trincomalee, in the West Indies, and hence his suspension of rank, to which he has now been restored.⁸

     Jermyn D'Arcy Travers Symonds's birth was registered in the quarter ending December 1855 in the Alverstoke, Hampshire registration district.³ He was the son of Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI and Susan Campbell Kennedy.^1,2 Jermyn D'Arcy Travers Symonds married Beatrice Mary Ledsam, daughter of William Ledsam and Merelina Victoria Gordon, in October 1889 in Hampstead, London.^4,3 Jermyn D'Arcy Travers Symonds appeared in the 1891 census at St. Helier, Jersey. He is listed as a lieutenant in the 16th Queen's Lancers. He and his wife appear to be visiting his father at the time.¹ He died on 16 February 1933 in Lincolnshire at the age of 77. The notice of his death describes him as late Straits Settlements Police and one time 16th Queen's Lancers.⁴

     Lt. Jermyn John Symonds R.N. was christened on 15 November 1765 at St. James, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.³ He was the son of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Mary Ann Noble.^1,2 Lt. Jermyn John Symonds R.N. was promoted third lieutenant on his father's ship Charon on 16 June 1780. He died on 3 November 1796 at the age of 30 when commander of the sloop Helena, 14 guns, which was lost with all hands off the coast of Holland. She foundered in a squall and about 80 men and boys were lost.⁴

     John Symonds was baptised on 10 February 1727/28 at Horringer, Suffolk, twin to Thomas.¹ He was the son of Rev. John Symonds and Mary Spring.¹ John Symonds was buried on 14 February 1727/28 in Horringer, Suffolk.²

     Dr. John Symonds. Regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University.¹ He was baptised on 19 February 1729/30 at Horringer, Suffolk.^2,3 He was the son of Rev. John Symonds and Mary Spring. Dr. John Symonds died on 18 February 1807 in Bury St. Edmunds at the age of 76 unmarried.¹ He was also Recorder of the Borough of Bury St. Edmunds.⁴

     Rev. John Symonds. Rector of Horningsheath alias Horringer (Church of St. Leonard).¹ He was born in 1695/96.¹ He married Mary Spring, daughter of Sir Thomas Spring bt and Merilina Jermyn, in January 1725/26 in Hengrave Church, Suffolk.² Rev. John Symonds died on 12 October 1757.³ He was buried on 16 October 1757 in the chancel of St Mary's Parish Church, Pakenham, Suffolk.³

     Capt. John Charles Symonds R.N. was born on 6 February 1790.¹ He was the son of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Elizabeth Mallet.¹ Capt. John Charles Symonds R.N. was christened on 13 July 1792 at St. James, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.¹ He married Helen Susan Chatterton on 28 October 1831 in Milford, Hampshire.³ Capt. John Charles Symonds R.N. died on 17 December 1841 in Keyhaven, Hampshire, at the age of 51.²

     John Jermyn Symonds. Native land court judge New Zealand.¹ He was born on 4 January 1816.² He was the son of Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds KCB, FRS and Elizabeth Saunders Luscombe. John Jermyn Symonds was christened on 11 September 1816 at Fawley, Hampshire.² He matriculated on 16 October 1834 from Trinity College, Oxford, and was a student of the Inner Temple, 1838.³ He married Alithea Seymour Wilson, daughter of John William Delap Wilson and Selina Frances Irwin, on 24 February 1849 in Milford, Hampshire.⁴ On 7 March 1849 under the command of Capt John Jermyn Symonds (brother of Capt. Cornwallis Symonds from the Ann 1840) The Berhampore, which was the seventh Fencible ship, sailed from London. Most of the 7th Detachment on board hailed from London, the Midlands, and a few from Scotland and Ireland. These Fencibles settled mainly Onehunga, Auckland.⁵ John Jermyn Symonds died on 3 January 1883 in Onehunga, New Zealand, at the age of 66.

     John Jermyn Symonds was born on 8 March 1857 in Onehunga, New Zealand.^1,2 He was the son of John Jermyn Symonds and Alithea Seymour Wilson.¹ John Jermyn Symonds died on 16 October 1857 in Hunston, Onehunga, New Zealand, Funeral notice.
Southern Cross, 23rd October. 1857
At Hunston, Onehunga, on the 16th instant, John Jermyn, infant son of John Jermyn Symonds, aged 7 months.^1,3

     John Tindall C. Symonds's birth was registered in the quarter ending March 1869 in the Alverstoke, Hampshire registration district.¹ He was the son of Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI and Susan Campbell Kennedy.²

     Julian Frederick Anthony Symonds was better known as Anthony Symonds. He was born on 10 December 1813.¹ He was the son of Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds KCB, FRS and Elizabeth Saunders Luscombe.¹ Julian Frederick Anthony Symonds was baptised on 11 September 1816 at Fawley, Hampshire.¹ On 22 May 1846 Promoted to the rank of Major (Royal Engineers). He died in 1852 in Cephalonia where he was Chief Resident.
Major Symonds was part of a small group mapping the Holy Land. It was he who first measured by trigonometry, the depression of the Dead Sea as 1300 feet.

     Juliana Symonds was born on 11 May 1826 in Boldre, Hampshire.³ She was the daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Juliana Symonds was christened on 26 August 1826 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire.³ She and Anne Penelope Grant Symonds appear on the census of 4 April 1881 Annie P. Symonds and Juliana Symonds are recorded as visitors in the house of John Brown Gray a grocer of 1 & 2 Lennox Street Waterloo, Melcombe Regis, Dorset.⁴ Juliana's death was registered in the quarter ending February 1899 in the Weymouth, Dorset registration district; unmarried.^5,6

     Juliana Symonds was christened on 15 March 1785 at St. Stephen By Saltash, Cornwall.² She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Elizabeth Mallet.¹ Juliana Symonds died on 24 January 1873 in Milford, Hampshire, "in her 87th year," unmarried.³

     Kenneth Maxwell Symonds was born on 20 May 1940.¹ He died on 1 June 2000 in New South Wales at the age of 60 and was buried in Point Clare Cemetery, New South Wales.²

     Lucinda A. Symonds's birth was registered in the quarter ending September 1852 in the Alverstoke, Hampshire registration district; born in Gosport.² She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI and Susan Campbell Kennedy.¹

     Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds was born probably on 31 March 1820.³ She was the daughter of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.^1,2 Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds was christened on 20 September 1820 at The Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire. She married Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. on 17 December 1857 in The Parish Church, Hordle, Hampshire, the service being conducted by the Rev. C. Möller.^2,4 Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds and Rev. Clement Hammond Gosset M.A. appear on the census of 4 April 1881 at Langton Herring Rectory House, Langton Herring, Dorset, together with their son, two boarders, Septimus S.W. Smith and William H. Andrews (both described as students for holy orders); Mary Trevett, aged 15, of Abbotsbury was the general servant at the house.⁵ Lucinde Elizabeth Symonds died on 10 July 1883 in 8 Pulteney Buildings, Weymouth, Dorset, at the age of 63.^3,6

     Maria Louisa Symonds's birth was registered in the quarter ending September 1846 in the East Stonehouse, Devon registration district.³ She was the daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds GCB and Anna Maria Heywood.¹ Maria Louisa Symonds died on 29 September 1865 in H.M. Dockyard, Devonport.²

     Mary Symonds was baptised on 29 January 1728/29 at Horringer, Suffolk.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. John Symonds and Mary Spring.¹ Mary Symonds was buried on 30 April 1729 in Horringer, Suffolk.²

     Mary Ann Symonds was born in 1769.¹ She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Mary Ann Noble.¹ Mary Ann Symonds and John Benjafield married by licence dated 29 November 1796. Mary Ann Symonds died in 1815 in Pultney Street, Bath.¹

After a lingering, though not painful, illness, Mary Ann, the wife of John Benjafield, esq. of Bury St. Edmunds, one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Suffolk. This much lamented lady was the daughter of Capt. Symonds, of the Royal Navy, and niece of the late John Symonds, LL.D. professor of modern history in the university of Cambridge; during her infancy she lost her mother, whilst her father was serving his country, in his profession, on a foreign station; at this period she became the adopted daughter of J. Godbold esq. of Bury St. Edmunds, and his wife, from the accidental circumstance of taking her to their house for a few days, whilst her mother lay dead (Mrs. Godbold being nearly related to Mrs. Benjafield, and coheiress with her paternal grandmother;) but the loveliness of person, the sweetness of temper, and the engaging manner of this amiable child, so delighted these valuable persons, that they were unwilling to part with her, and, with the consent of her father, retained her with them, having no child of their own, and adopted her. She was elegantly and most accomplishedly educated by them, and lived with these invaluable and estimable parents until she was married to her present husband, in the year 1796, and uninterruptedly experienced from them such rare and valuable marks of regard and affection, not possible to be exceeded by the fondest and most indulgent parents, and which she, on her part, studied through her life, even to the last moment of it, to repay with the most dutiful and marked affection. Her disposition was highly charitable, her temper amiable, innocent, and affectionate. In the character of wife and mother, which her husband and and children fully experienced, nor in any of the relative duties of friend and Christian, she could not he excelled. She possessed those mild virtues which, in a manner, commanded friends, and never gave real cause to create one personal enemy--Monthly magazine and British register, Vol. 40, p. 285.¹

     Mary Anne Theresa Symonds was born on 18 December 1783. She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Elizabeth Mallet.¹ Mary Anne Theresa Symonds married Capt. John Whitby RN, son of Rev. Thomas Whitby and Mabella Turton, on 13 October 1802. After her husband died in 1806 she continued to live at Newlands with Admiral Cornwallis until his death in 1819. The latter left her virtually all his estate, which naturally led to speculation that their relationship had been more than platonic, in spite of the vast age difference. She continued to live at Newlands and used the inheritance to buy further large parts of the parish, having bought the manors of Milford Barnes and Milford Montagu in 1810 and that of Milford Baddesley in 1819. By 1844, the tithe award shows her to be the owner of about a third of Milford, with 1400 acres there and 500 more in Downton. She had also increased the size of Newlands from 60 acres to 200. Mary Anne Theresa Symonds died on 5 August 1850 in Newlands, Hampshire, at the age of 66.² She was buried on 12 August 1850 in Milford, Hampshire.³

     Merelina Symonds was born on 9 May 1788 (the transcription of the record gives her name as Martina).² She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Symonds RN and Elizabeth Mallet.¹ Merelina Symonds was first christened on 4 June 1788 at St. Stephen By Saltash, Cornwall, (the transciption of her name is Merilina).³ She was again christened on 13 July 1792 at St. James', Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.² She married Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, son of Robert Tindal and Sarah Pocock, on 2 September 1809 in Milford, Hampshire.⁴ Merelina Symonds died on 22 February 1818 probably at in Brunswick Square, London, at the age of 29.^5,6

     Merelina Grey Symonds was born on 28 October 1851 in Onehunga, New Zealand.² She was the daughter of John Jermyn Symonds and Alithea Seymour Wilson.¹ Merelina Grey Symonds married James Meacham Batham on 20 August 1878 in St. Peter's Church, Onehunga, New Zealand, the marriage was performed by the Rev. A.R. Tomlinson.^1,3

     Myra T. M. Symonds was born circa 1858 in Gosport, Hampshire.² She was the daughter of Maj. Gen. Jermyn Charles Symonds RMLI and Susan Campbell Kennedy.¹

     Octavius Cumby Symonds RN was born on 27 April 1830.² He was the son of Vice-Admiral Thomas Edward Symonds and Lucinde Marie Louise Antoinette Touzi.¹ Octavius Cumby Symonds RN was christened on 23 February 1831 at the Parish Church, Boldre, Hampshire.² He died in September 1845 at the age of 15 of plague aboard the steam sloop HMS Eclair to which he had been appointed as one a cadet on 6 September 1844.^1,3
There is a memorial in Royal Garrison Church, Portsmouth which reads: "Sacred to the memory of Commander W.(alter) G.(rimsonton) B. Estcourt Late in command of Her Majesty's steam sloop Eclair who died on 16th September 1845 aged 38 years on passage from Bona Vista to Madeira, from fever, contracted on the coast of Africa while employed in the suppression of the Slave Trade. His brother officers and friends to whom he had become endeared by his many virtues have erected this tablet to record the deep sense of their loss, and perpetuate the memory of his worth. With Commander Estcourt, perished 65 Officers and Men in the short period of two months."

     Queenie J. Symonds's birth was registered in the quarter ending 1886 in the St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia registration district.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas C.L. Symonds and Alice Ann Picot.¹