Samples from a list of missing persons from the Singapore Straits Times, 21 February 1901:
Bessie Dora Bowen, née Saunderson, last heard of at Brisbane, Australia, about 40 years ago. Sister Mary Musgrave Bowen, née Robertson, seeks. Address from herself or daughter, Mary Thelluson, or son Arthur.
John Maidens, worked on a sugar plantation in Brisbane five years ago. Mother asks.
John Metheringham, of Nottingham, was at Brighton in 1876; supposed to have gone to Australia on a merchant vessel. Mother and sister inquire.
Julia Myneskie, seeks relatives. She says — “I was left when six weeks old with my nurse, Mrs. Woodford, during the revolution in Poland in 1852.”
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