I have tried many avenues and failed to definitively identify John Morgan after this date. In April 1866, a J Morgan, 41, left for New Zealand ports. The ship, the Gothenburg, sailed via Hokitika and Grey Mouth to Nelson, in New Zealand’s South Island. There were gold rushes to nearby Okarita and Bruce Bay around this time. It could so easily have been John Morgan. His age, the date and circumstances feel right. I can imagine him thinking – wishing – there must be more to life, as yet another child (whose paternity he probably questioned) was about to squall its way into existence. Working on that assumption I identified a possible candidate in New Zealand, John Morgan, 50 (which may have been an approximation) who died 17 November 1878 at the Dunedin Asylum of ‘senile decay’. His death certificate bore the bare minimum of identity details and it has not been possible to confirm this as John.