Abbreviations used
Date June 4 1852
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Weekly Chronicle
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
d. Saturday morn., Mary Stewart HARE w/o Lt. Charles HARE, R.N. The intelligence of the loss of her eldest son in the ill fated steamer "Birkenhead" on the coast of Africa February last produced a shock from which she never recovered.