1836

Coroner’s Inquests 1836 Cases

There were 55 cases in 1836, presented in four separate pages.

The death of Mary Kerly appears in this newspaper to be shrouded in mystery and terminology, she had been induced to leave the workhouse by a profligate fellow, and died a miserable victim of vice and sensuality.

I could not help thinking that Christopher Holland may have had some violent act already in mind when he challenged Thomas Smith to carry him across the room, the latter being instantly killed by Holland’s action.

It was a common concern in those days that if you went into the workhouse you would not come out alive – that it also applied to other institutions is clear in the case of Edward Adams, who, fearing he would be operated on, discharged himself from Salisbury Infirmary and threw himself in the river Avon.

Catherine Fitzgibbon, a recent widow, was travelling home from her husband’s family in London to Ireland, when she died in the coach, having drunken some spirits. It is a sign of the poor communications available at this period that the newspaper asks any readers who see the item in London to contact them about the death.

The year ends with a violent storm, a low pressure with serious wind-speeds, and consequent tree-destruction, two such trees causing the deaths of John Moores, Henry Bartlett and Susan Bartlett, the latter two having gone out to purchase mourning clothes for their family after the death of a family member.

Cheverill, Mary – Salisbury

Andrews, William – Colerne

Kerly, Mary – Alvediston

Summers, Maria – Draycot Cerne

Hunt, James – Hillmarton

Elliott, James – Chippenham

Lampard, female infant – Winterslow

Tayler, William – Waxcombe

Smith, Thomas – Trowbridge

Hayter, James – Hurdcott

Trulock, Edward – Hindon

Morgan, John – Heytesbury

Wheeler, Amelia – Landford

Smith, William – Winterbourne Stoke

Noyce, John – Bodenham

Perman, Hannah – East Knoyle

Highett, Philip – Collingbourne Kingston

Adams, Edward – Salisbury

Coombs, James – Fisherton

Lever, Luke – Ansty

Wentworth, John – Harnham

Palmer, female infant – Swallowcliffe

King, Hannah – Trowbridge

Haines, Sarah – Salisbury

Watson, male – Littleton

Haslen, William – Compton Chamberlayne

Gauntlett, George – Downton

White, James – Figheldean

Unknown infant – Compton Bassett

Rawlins, Elizabeth – Enford

Young, male – Devizes

Fitzgibbon, Catherine – Overton

Willoughby, George – Overton

Whitmore, Nathaniel – Harnham

Targett, James – Bemerton

Sumtion, Michael – Colerne

Miles, Amos Semley

Scammell, Edward – East Knoyle

Spreadbury, John – Wilton

Bachelor, James – Figheldean

Mabbet, William – Stapleford

Akerman, James – Lydeway

Oborne, Alfred – Tisbury

Frampton, Mary – Swindon

Blandford, Ann – Donhead St Mary

Young, John – Wilcott

Unknown infant – Kingston Deverill

Francis, Alfred – Semington

Pickard, George – Studley

Baker, male – Dauntsey

White, Isaac – All Cannings

Nobes, John – Highworth

Bartlett, Henry & Bartlett, Susan – Great Bedwin

Moores, John – Fonthill Bishop

Minall, Mary – Ramsbury

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