Phillips Family - F371

In the entry for Sunday 21st June, in the Diary of James McLauchlan the death of five year old Alinda Phillips is mentioned:

Sunday 21st

About 11 I went to church. The service has held in the Poop which being supplied with an awning was much cooler than the cabin. As soon as we came down, the first melancholy news we heard was that the little girl who was so ill yesterday had died between 11 and 12 o’clock.

Poor little thing just 2 or 3 days before, she told her Mother that she dreamed she was going to die and be cast into the sea. Little did she think it was so soon to be fulfilled. Between 2 and 3 o’clock she was consigned to the deep…about Lat 13 o 37N. Long 27 o 58’ W. The Mother, it seems, with her two children a boy and the girl was going to meet her husband in Australia ... it will be a sad meeting for them.

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