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1882 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There are 33 cases in 1882. An old woman (woman being the lower-class term, as opposed to lady) fell on to a candle and could not get up, dying hideously from burns. Sarah Symes. Also an aged lady, drank herself to an early death. Sarah Yarlett. Threw herself determinedly into shallow water under the influence of drink. William Brittan. Was yet another victim of moving shafting and belts in a mill. Rebbeck, Fr...
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1880 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There are only 14 cases this year. The death of Emma Gale. Was exacerbated by the treatment she received from her drunken husband, who, like many working men, took his wages down the local house instead of home. Died after coming into a drunken brawl between her brother and her husband’s brother. The killing of John Pitt. Two accidents feature young children. In one case Frederick Jackson. Who were on the Grea...
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1884 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There are 54 cases in 1884, and quite a variety they are. I have often contemplated the fantasy of travelling back in time to see how things were then but I would definitely draw the line at rail travel in the nineteenth century! The most serious railway accident in the collection (excepting the 1906 crash) is the Breamore Rail Disaster. One of the saddest cases I have seen was that of Charles Taffy Gale.
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1887 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. Of the 50 cases in 1887, unfortunately a good number are covered with a mere paragraph, in several cases reports consisted of two or more cases bundled together. Necessarily there is a lack of detail in some of the cases. A typical case of A not knowing what B and C were doing is seen in the death of William Hill. We have all heard of a husband and wife dying within a few days of each other Sarah Safe. And the...
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1886 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There were 49 cases in 1886, though several are reduced to a mere sentence or two. Fell off a roof, and the evidence clearly showed how dangerous general building used to be the safe way up the roof was by several iron bolts in the walls apparently but deceased climbed by a ladder, falling seven feet on to a lower roof, and falling again to the ground. It was also a frosty day. Aged 21 months, and let it out t...
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1888 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There are two large cases this year. One concerns a suicide pact of a young couple Elizabeth Yates and Albert Sparey. 8211; who had met only recently. It makes an interesting comparison with the only other such case in the collection, that of Walter Brown and Dorothy Dredge. Apparently a certified midwife in the middle of the twentieth century would deal with about 150 births a year in a city area Catherine Bu...
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1879 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There are 25 cases for 1879. Eliza Blake said she had her illegitimate baby. On the roadside near Netheravon, and that it was dead probably true but then there is the elaborate scheme concocted to conceal the fact of it being her child, showing how far the stigma of illegitimacy could push young women. Another death at the Town Mill, this time a boy named George White. Playing on the plank with his brother.
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1889 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. 1889 has a mere 25 cases, though I have to admit to some frustration in their transcribing. There are a couple where a mere paragraph is all we have, and three comprising a whole half-page of typescript. Several are clarity itself, and some follow the later trend of neatly paragraphed editorial pieces, concise and readable, but at least one this year – the case of John Barber. Being prosecuted for assaulting c...
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1868 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There were 43 short reports in 1868. Because he was an itinerant, travelling around as a tinker, could not obtain any recommendation for admission to Salisbury Infirmary, and in walking towards Salisbury, he died on the road. The day started early for the agricultural labourer in the 1860s, sixty-nine year old Joseph Carter. Leaving for his harvest work before four in the morning. Fifty year old John Lush.
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1876 | South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920
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South Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920. Coroner's Inquests 1868-1920 for South Wiltshire. There were 25 cases reported in 1876. Was an old farm labourer, who made the mistake of leaning on an oil-cake crushing machine, only for his sleeve to get caught in the machinery. Andrew Reubens. Also an old man, this time with rheumatics and a walking stick was, surprisingly to us, a ganger on the railway, though unfortunately was walking along the line and did not heed warnings. Maria Brownjohn. In many cas...
