The Islander of 30 August 1844 reported the death of James McCormack at Music Hill, Lot 45, describing him as sixty years old.

The newspaper notice

At Music Hill, Lot 45, on Saturday the 25th August, of consumption, or a lingering sickness, which he bore with a pious resignation to the will of his Heavenly Father, Mr. James McCormack, at the round age of sixty years.

The transcribed notice gives 25 August but calls it a Saturday. That date fell on a Sunday in 1844, so the day and date require comparison with the newspaper image.

The notice does not name a wife, children or burial place. Those connections remain to be established independently.

Sources

The Islander, 30 August 1844; transcribed by Ronald J. Reid, The Island Register

Phyllis Dand’s Islander vital-statistics index, 30 August 1844