1838

Coroner’s Inquests 1838 cases

There were 78 cases in 1838, presented in five sub-pages.

This year opens with another pugilistic contest, the combatants – Richard Nash and Phineas Snow – fighting in a room of a public house, the edge of a wooden settle decidedly settling the matter.

The ever-distressing cases of child-burnings, usually as a by-product of poverty, do not get easier to read, but when you read that a child – in this case, Rebecca Fletcher, eight years of age – is but one of a number of children brought into the house of Mrs Fort so that they can look after the house whilst she goes out, and they are left with a fire there burning; well, it staggers belief.

The conversation which led to Frederick Barnett shooting Thomas Hendy, accidentally, seemed believable, conceivable, or did it? And why was Anna Barnes, a nursemaid in the family of Mr Burbage of Foxhanger Farm, so depressed at the age of 16 that she was found in the canal – was there some other reason for her distress?

Poverty and consequent poor health can be seen or suspected in the cases of an Unknown Male at Collingbourn Kingston, William Elliott, Betty Stroud, and the Unknown Male at Homington.

Thomas Seckstone, aged 27, was haymaking from 4am until 2pm – ten hours in hot July sun, and his day was nowhere near over when his life suddenly was.

Weston, John – Devizes

Nash, Richard – Salisbury

Avenell, Mary – Swindon

Spacey, John – Upton Lovell

Pyke, Thomas – Collingbourne Ducis

Sims, male – Shrewton

Goodfellow, Rosina – Salisbury

Aldridge, Mary – Salisbury

Fletcher, Rebecca – Wilton

Unknown male – Collingbourne Kingston

Patience, William – Bowerchalke

Hendy, Thomas – Coate

Smart, Isaac – Wootton Bassett

Humby, William – Salisbury

Melhuish, James – Pewsey

Collins, Mark – Winterslow

Unknown female infant – Harnham

Elliott, William – Salisbury

Hunt, Joseph – Ludgershall

Bell, Helena – Downton

Arman, Sarah – Chiseldon

Hendy, John – Shalborne

Ridout, Frederick – Homington

Frost, Jane – Whiteparish

Norman, Margaret – Marlborough

Prowse, George – Avebury

Pride, Nathaniel – Melksham

Shorto, Hannah – Salisbury

Shergold, James – Orcheston

Stroud, Thomas – Berwick Bassett

Unknown male infant – Bottlesford

Lawrence, Robert – Corsham

Bye, Joel – Shinfield

Grace, Stephen – Winterslow

Boswell, Stephen – Sutton Mandeville

Thomas, Elizabeth – Figheldean

Paice, George – West Dean

Doe, John – Marlborough

Foyle, Thomas – Shrewton

Musselwhite, James – Harnham

Bradley, William – Avebury

Pimlett, George – Trowbridge

Carter, James – Everleigh

Upjohn, George – Wilton

Unknown male infant – Enford

Bell, Diana – Whiteparish

Cotterill, James – Salisbury

Shaddack, Hannah – Salisbury

Barnes, Anna – Rowde

Seckstone, Thomas – Compton Bassett

Harrod, male infant – Wootton Bassett

Bishop, Henry – Hindon

England, Moses – Salisbury

Gillo, Edward – Salisbury

Burt, Martha – Fonthill Gifford

Webb, Henry – Hoare

Stockwell, Ann – Ham

Hancock, James – Seend

Hope, Henry – Corsham

Baldwin, Elizabeth – South Marston

Sharp, James – Donhead St Andrew

Rowley, Charles – Westbury

Mahoney, Cornelius – Marlborough

Clem, John – Heytesbury

Ralphs, William – Marlborough

Musselwhite, John – Salisbury

Hillier, female infant – Pewsey

Stroud, Betty – Preshute

Lovelock, Fanny – Great Bedwin

Bath, infant – Lacock

Dowty, Elizabeth – Quidhampton

Unknown male – Homington

Thompson, John – Thingley

Young, Samuel – Devizes

Newman, John – Bulkington

Tilley, William – Stert

Willis, Charles – Urchfont

Southmell, Abraham – Amesbury

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