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.
Alfred Batten, landlord of the Elephant and Castle, hanged himself, and after reading the accounts of it, Thomas Coleman did the same.
Hibberd, Sarah Barford St Martin
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Wiltshire Coroner's Inquests 1801-1920 