1846

Coroner’s Inquests 1846 cases

There were 138 cases in 1846, presented in eight sub-pages.

Elizabeth Butcher, a single woman in a destitute state, entered the Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Union Workhouse to have her illegitimate baby, Ann Butcher, giving up her own possessions when she did so. Upon leaving, four weeks later, she and her baby were stripped of their Union clothing, and as the baby did not previously exist and therefore had only Union swaddling, she was forced to take it out in freezing weather wrapped only in a shawl and naked but for a pair of socks. Such was the lot of poor unmarried mothers and their babies.

I re-read the passage, with some disbelief, where it said that 77-year old Robert Porter had been to collect a truss of hay, and had been seen carrying it home on his head. No wonder he keeled over and died of a broken neck.

George and Martha Evans came down from Liverpool to Box, he leaving his wife – who was in a parlous mental and physical state – lodging with the Jordans, immediately going in search of work to London, defaulting on the rent, and not returning. The abandoned wife deteriorated and died, and a neighbour enlivened the inquest with acrimonious dispute.

Another case of very poor health caused probably by poverty was that of eight-month old Mary Angell, who suffered from what we now call Noma, a rapidly progressive, often gangrenous, infection of the mouth and face, usually associated with malnutrition.

Sheppard, John – Avoncliffe

Bealing, Charles – Mere

Spreadbury, Stephen – Salisbury

Gee, Elizabeth – Trowbridge

Haswell, Mary – Bradford on Avon

Millard, Mary – Dilton’s Marsh

Whatley, Susan – Crockerton

Butcher, Ann – Purton

Spreadbury, Stephen – Salisbury

Clifford, female infant – Bradford on Avon

Batchelor, Isaac – Avoncliff

Glover, Andrew – Mere

Bartlett, Joseph – Westbury

Porter, Robert – Trowbridge

Gerrish, Mary – Bradford on Avon

Beams, James – Holt

Unknown male – Bromham

Taylor, Jacob – Hillmarton

Selman, George – Chippenham

Creswell, John – Malmesbury

Shefford, Alfred & Shefford, John – Great Bedwin

Cook, Samuel – Avoncliff

Dick, Catherine – Edington

Chant, Thomas – Homington

Thomas, George – Salisbury

Everley, Isaac – Sutton Veny

Farr, Elizabeth – North Bradley

Dory, Mary – South Wraxall

Trollope, Wyndham – Horningsham

Gingell, Emily – Luckington

Griffin, Charlotte – Hannington

Hibbard, Sarah – Baydon

Matthews, Rachel – Southwick

Hall, Eliza – Lacock

Saunders, John – Brokenborough

Murrell, Mary – Chippenham

Foyle, William – Tisbury

Wimpey, Elziabeth – Salisbury

Street, Anne – Damerham

Rivers, Thomas – Warminster

Sawyer, John – Melksham

Dickenson, Thomas – Sherston Magna

Gibbs, Charles – Swindon

Stagg, Susannah – Stanton St Bernard

Lawrence, Ellen – Broad Blunsden

Cole, Elizabeth – Bowood

Usher, Henry – Semington

Smith, Emma – Steeple Ashton

Bricker, Ann – Bradford on Avon

Pearce, Robert – Imber

Maton, Francis – Laverstock

Cowley, Thomas & Scriven, Mary & Coale, Caroline – Swindon

Macey, James – Fonthill Gifford

Curtis, Thomas – Horningsham

Pullen, Joel – Holt

Webb, Mary – North Bradley

Vallis, John – Bishopstrow

Bennett, John – Trowbridge

Gulley, Thomas – Melksham Forest

Gale, Job – Harnham

Bracher, Henry – Great Wishford

Stevens, male – Devizes

Beazley, William – Purton

Scott, Charles – Ashton Keynes

Farley, Thomas – Berwick Bassett

White, Joseph – Church Yatton

Dickox, Edward – Hillmarton

Stagg, Thomas – West Grafton

Wilks, Ann – Shrewton

Mackrell, George – Harnham

Trihorn, James – Laverstock

Morgan, Samuel – Limpley Stoke

Curtis, John – Warminster

Humphries, William – Swindon

Bradfield, Susanna – Cricklade

Ponting, William – Marlborough

Unknown male infant – Swindon

Griffen, Nathaniel – Yatton Keynell

Pickett, Kate – Stratton St Margaret

Coombes, James – Hindon

Stone, Mary – Winterslow

Brind, Thomas – Wanborough

Winders, William – Oaksey

Reilly, Ann – Hillmarton

Tanswell, James – Donhead St Mary

Crew, Thomas – Lacock

Sutton, Ann – Grittenham

Short, Melina – Christian Malford

Ellett, Amelia – Winsley

Evans, Martha – Box

Skrine, Benjamin – Bradford on Avon

Stokes, William – Bradford on Avon

Pearce, Charles – Corsley

Hulbert, James – Westbury

Pressley, Henry – Mere

Heath, John – Broad Blunsden

Burry, Abraham – Etchilhampton

Hillier, male infant – Burbage

Gibson, John – Wingfield

Paschal, Harriet – Trowbridge

Cattley, Rachael – Burcombe

White, infant – Hindon

Sainsbury, Harriet – Littleton

Ashley, Richard – Potterne

Bull, William – Broughton Gifford

Wyatt, William – West Lavington

Bowman, Bernard – Cricklade

Body, George – Grittleton

Gough, Charles – Lacock

Harper, George – Southwick

Walter, Mary – Biddestone

Bird, Isaac – Swindon

Jefferies, Frederick – Wootton Bassett

Carrier, James – Devizes

Stephens, Thomas – Ogbourn St George

Whatley, Louisa – Warminster

Thomas, Richard – Chippenham

Newman, Rose – Castle Eaton

Mills, Benjamin – Sherston Magna

Angell, Mary – Trowbridge

Raikes, George – Bradford on Avon

Jones, William – Swindon

Hatcher, Henry – Salisbury

Watley, Edward – Barford St Martin

Langly, Sarah – Broadchalke

Sanger, James – Fovant

Ashton, John – Box

Hilliar, John – Burbage

Tilton, Thomas – Rodbourne

Hedges, Pheobe – Lydiard Millicent

Ruddle, Eliza – Chippenham

Middleton, William – Bishops Cannings

Savage, Eliza – Pewsey

Pullen, female infant – Westbury

Hooper, William – Atworth

Clements, Fanny – Corsley

Harris, Thomas – Westbury

Roberts, Emma – Trowbridge

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