Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Calendar - Great Britain - 1872


I needed a calender to find a date of death

Mercury Newspaper dated 15 March 1872
Tasmania

DEATH BY CHOKING

On Tuesday last an elderly woman, named Frances Reeves, while eating some food in Mr R Thompson’s kitchen, New Norfolk, rushed out of the house, fell to the ground, and died in a few minutes, before medical aid arrived. An inquest was held at the Freemason’s Hotel the next day before W.A. Jamieson Esq. Coroner, and a respectable jury, of whom Mr Barton was foreman, Dr Moore, the medical witness, made a post mortem examination of the body, but could not find any cause of death until the windpipe was opened, when portions of the food deceased had been eating were found lodged in it. The jury, according to the evidence returned a verdict of death from asphyxia by choking.

the paper came out on a Friday so she died on Tuesday 12 March 1872
and many many thanks to Suelwinch for a lot of data on this couple who were married in 1854

Wiiliam Rees aka Reeves
Transported for:

Stealing 2 sheep.
Gaol Report: Bad Character. Etc.
Hulk report: good
Married with 2 childs. Stated this offence sheep stealing,
prosecuted Mr Williams a Clergyman
he was married, and left his wife Mary at Clytha with two boys,
Wiliam aged 8 who went to live in Blaenavon,
and John aged about 6 months who went to Peckville Pennsylvania,
and a daughter Magaret, about 8 years old, who died aged 11 at the Union Workhouse Abergavenny

Tried: 01 Jan 1838 Monmouth QS
held in Usk old goal or a hulk?
Embarked: Sheerness 12 June 1838 Ship: Coromandel (2)
Arrived: Van Diemen’s Land 25 October 1838 Sentence: 10 Years
Convict No: 1342

also Google Search: 15 March 1872 calendar

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