Coroner’s Inquests 1820 cases
There were 38 cases in 1820, presented in four sub-pages.
One feature noted among this year’s cases is sunstroke, suffered by George Jukes and Sarah Gane, among others, workers who had been mowing hay in boiling sunny conditions, getting so overborne by heat that they took cold drink, and suffered the shock concomitant.
We’ve all heard the saying that, to the effect, “This person doth protest too much,” and I sense that aspect in the case of Elizabeth Safe, who died apparently by natural causes, though rumour suggested she had been hit in the back by a gun wielded by a gentleman farmer. Strange that not one but three surgeons examined her body, that all three told how the deceased had repeatedly told them she received no such blow, and, good lord, two weeks earlier, she had made a sworn deposition before two magistrates that she had received no such blow. Extraordinary!
Unknown male infant – Chilmark
Newberry, John – Steeple Langford
Oven/Owen, John – Great Durnford
Bacon, Jane – Fugglestone St Peter
Cottle, Richard – Limpley Stoke
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