Nor will we know, though imagination may lend us eyes and ears, what sights, sounds, smells
and sensations enveloped William Honeycombe and his family when they came ashore at
Melbourne that Monday morning long ago.
Ordnance Survey Map of Cahtock, showing Honicombe, 1976.
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Letter from J Bigg refthe conduct of stonemason William Homrycombe, 25 August, IS34.
Plan of the accommodation on the Sir Charles Forbes of Liverpool injanuary 1839. The Sen
Queen was similar
Cape Town in 1847, population 21,000, from a painting by George Angus. William
Honeycombe and his family docked here in 1850.
Wales on 15 November 1850.
HEREBY CERTIFY IKAI IHIs'lS A TRUE COPY OF AN EN I
RY^JKA^ REGISTER KEPI N THE STATE OF VICTORIA. IN THE
CUWONUEALTH OF £GISTRY OF BIRTHS DEATHS AND MARRIAGES.
Deulh Cerii/icale of Elizabeth Honeycombe, wife of William, who died in Melbourne on 30
April. 1851, aged 53.
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