1863

Coroner’s Inquests 1863 cases

There were 89 cases in 1863, presented in six sub-pages.

Thomas Obern, and three or four other spinners at Trowbridge, went out drinking on Saturday morning, for three or four hours, before returning to their workplace, where Mr James Cogswell, master-spinner, their employer, had his counting house, at the top of a flight of stairs. On asking for his money, his employer refused to countenance his intoxicated condition and told him to come back after laying down – on turning to descend the stairs, Obern fell down the entire stair and lay unconscious at the bottom, where his employer laid him down to sleep it off, except that this snoring sleep became a permanent sleep.

George Wheeler seemed to be an amiable friendly seventeen year old, and was interested enough in some workmen pulling down an old barn to try and help them, despite their trying to warn him off – why didn’t he listen to them?

William Read took his own life from a common and I think reasonable fear, that he might end his days in the union workhouse.

It’s easy to forget these days that when the railways were in their youth people commonly walked along the rails – Isabella Gunton travelled from Paddington on her way to Plymouth, and a young man had asked the railway staff to keep an eye on her, but at Swindon she appeared to have descended the train, walked along the platform, and then about three miles down the line, where she sat down to pull off her slippers, and was there destroyed.

There would be many fatal accidents on cycles in later years, but in this year Frederick Heath attempted to ride a velocipede home from chapel, but when his son shouted him to jump off when approaching a small stream in the road, he fell backwards and hit his head.

Norris, Frederick – Mere

Walker, Maria – Devizes

Unknown infant – Trowbridge

Singler, female infant – Westbury

Weston, Thomas – Bromham

Roberts, Mary – Bishops Cannings

Cruse, Jane – West Lavington

Mitchell, Lydia – Melksham

Haliday, Henry – Trowbridge

Brown, Fanny – Whiteparish

Walsh, William – Salisbury

Musselwhite, Henry – Barford St Martin

Tame, Thomas – Cholderton

Long, David – Mere

Unknown infant – Wilton

Simmonds, Rose – Donhead St Andrew

Obern, Thomas – Trowbridge

Norris, Jane – Froxfield

Carter, James – Malmesbury

Miller, Henry – Chute

Parsons, Martha – Salisbury

Stephenson, Emma – Warminster

Wheeler, George – Crockerton

Nash, John – Stockton

Jelly, Albert – Mere

Wise, Laura – Warminster

Eyres, Samuel – Westbury

Halliday, Stephen – Trowbridge

Francis, Ellen – Box

Rumming, John – Hilmarton

Osgood, Abraham – Salisbury

Webb, George – Trowbridge

Davis, Ann – Trowbridge

Unknown male infant – Harnham

Gosney, Charles – Chilmark

Payne, James – Box

Baker, John – Bishopstone

Hudd, John – Devizes

Colier, Benjamin – Westbury

Unknown male – Swindon

Biffin, Samuel – West Lavington

Millard, Thomas – Warminster

Read, William – Trowbridge

Sheppard, John – Liddington

Lewis, Llewellyn – Holt

Curtis, Hart – Salisbury

Goodridge, William – Redlynch

De Windt, Clayton – Highworth

Mallins, Daniel – Westwood

Roff, Samuel – Collingbourne Ducis

Small, John – Salisbury

Stroud, Stephen – Marlborough

Unknown male – Westbury

Ingram, Giles – Fisherton Delamere

Wright, Elizabeth – Nettleton

Webber, John – Mere

White, John – Savernake

Sloper, George – East Lavington

Naish, Frank – Enford

Ravenhill, Sophia – Codford

Gray, Thomas – Salisbury

Jordan, Sarah – Salisbury

Batchelor, Rebecca – Westbury

Salisbury, Louisa – Everley

Butler, William – Melksham

Smockomb, Stephen – Broughton Giffard

Hurl, James – West Coulston

Brown, Thomas – Melksham

Penn, John – Downton

Spreadbury, William – Everley

Jerred, Henry – Whiteparish

Grant, William – Bradford on Avon

Hatchman, Thomas – Enford

Dunford, female infant – Chitterne

Holdoway, Frank – Westbury

Gillard, female infant – Donhead St Mary

Howell, Henry – Tisbury

Rogers, John – Chippenham

Nelson, Henry – Landford

Bizley, Frederick – Swindon

Blistow, Sarah – Kingston Deverill

Grey, Sarah – East Grimstead

Waters, Frederick – Durnford

Druitt, male infant – Tedworth

Heath, Frederick – Mere

Currier, Ann – Westbury

Stone, Mary – Newton Tony

Fricker, Fanny – Zeals

Genton, Isabella – Chippenham

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