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Out of the Frozen Deep
- DanBC 6y agoI'm quoting the first para here because this is an interesting, in-depth, historical post, in four parts. > This is the story behind and beyond the facts and evidence in Ommanney v Stilwell, a case decided in the High Court in England in 1856. The court had to consider the unknown date of death of naval lieutenant Edward Couch, an officer of HMS Erebus, one of the two ships of Sir John Franklin’s lost Arctic expedition of 1845, in order to determine who should inherit under Edward’s will. This dispute involved the surviving members of Edward’s family, and the will made by his father, Captain James Couch.