Daniel Brewer (1845 - 1881)

Husband of Margaret Helen Nicholson — married 31 Dec 1875 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Died 11 Jun 1881 at about age 36 in At Sea: On board the Pakeha, off Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Biography

Daniel was born in 1845. He married in 1875.^[1] He passed away in 1881.

Sources

1. ↑ New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937 Source Information Ancestry.com. New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

• "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-WYGH : 4 October 2016), Daniel Brewer and Margaret Ellen Nicholson, 1875; citing Marriage, New Zealand, registration number 1875/1733, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
• "PAKEHA, brig: When on a passage from Kaipara to Dunedin with a cargo of timber for her owners the brig ran ashore on the Ninety Mile Beach, near Lake Ellesmere, on the morning of June 11, 1881, and became a total wreck. A number of fishermen went to the wreck in boats to render assistance, and found that, with one exception all of the crew had been drowned. The Pakeha was within 12 miles of Otago Heads when she sprang a leak and became unmanageable. The master decided to run for shelter under Banks Peninsula. On the morning of June 11 a strong gale blew several sails out of the bolt-ropes, and the captain, finding the brig in a dangerous position, decided to let her drift ashore. On striking one of the masts immediately went over the side, and the sea swept all the crew into the surf. The sole survivor, the only one in the crew of seven who could swim, managed to grasp a floating spar and was washed ashore. Reference: Page 202, "New Zealand Shipwrecks, 1795-1970" by C. INGRAM, published 1974, 4th edn, by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, NZ

Research Note

There is no online record of his death in NZ BDM