Does anyone have access to newspapers

[Charney Jo]

I have just spent a few enjoyable hours on Find My Past reading about my husband's 3 x great grandfather - Samuel Maullin of Bilston. He died suddenly on 3 December 1859 while attending a "tripe supper" and I can see from the Birmingham Daily Post on 7 December 1859 that there was an inquest which was adjourned so that a post mortem could be held and they were to examine the men who dined with him.

However, apart from sales particulars for his house, I cannot find any further articles and I wondered if any kind soul out there could have a look for me too?

All help gratefully received!

[Elaine]

Found one

DERBYSHIRE ADVERTISER AND JOURNAL, DEC. 9. 1859.
...morning, of Mr. Samuel Maul I in, respectable master builder, of that town. On the previous evening the deceased had been tripe supper" at one of the principal inns, and rather early in the night appeared fall into a troubled sleep. Little attention was ..

inquest has still yet to be heard

[Elaine]

Much of the same

07 December 1859 - Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser

Manchester Times 10 December 1859

Grantham Journal 10 December 1859....Mullin

10 December 1859 - Leeds Times...Muiin

but I can't find anymore about the inquest

[Charney Jo]

No, that's what I found too Elaine. I was hoping there would be more. Perhaps there's not. Thanks for looking!

I've now gone back to look at the census returns and now don't know which Samuel Maullin he was - it appears there were 2, both born in Bilston in 1815-ish - both master builders??? One married a Jane and one married a Maria. Argghh...

[Elaine]

Oh dear!

[Charney Jo]

Yes, it's hurting my head rather ...:D

[Elaine]

Have a look at the probate reg

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=hxT2791&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-c&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=samuel&gsfn_x=0&gsln=maullin&gsln_x=0&MSAV=1&msbdy=1815&msbpn__ftp=Bilston,%20Staffordshire,%20England&msbpn=87200&msbpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C0%7C3257%7C3251%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C5284%7C87200%7C0%7C0%7C&cpxt=1&cp=4&catbucket=rstp&uidh=evi&pcat=34&h=14901147&db=UKProbateCal&indiv=1&ml_rpos=8

no wife mentioned, Samuel builder deceased 3 Dec

[Charney Jo]

Well, I think he's definitely "mine" as the other Samuel was living with his son and is listed as a Widower in the 1881 census, whereas "my" Samuel's wife is a widow in 1861

[Charney Jo]

Yes, I saw that Elaine. Is that a bit odd, not listing the wife in the probate record?

[Elaine]

I'm no expert but I would have thought she would be.

[Charney Jo]

Hmmm....

[Charney Jo]

But the articles do mention he has a wife and daughter...

[Olde Crone Holden]

The probate register only mentions name of deceased and then the name of the executor which would not usually be the wife in those days.

OC

[Elaine]

Thanks OC

[Charney Jo]

Ah, thanks OC!

[ozgirl]

There are reports about his inquest with details of the post mortem in the Staffordshire advertiser of 10 Dec 1859, page 5 column 1.

Post-mortem found that the brain was congested and the stomach and liver much diseased.Conclusion was that he died of congestive apoplexy(?) induced by excessive use of intoxicating drinks.

[GallowayLass]

1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica from an article in Wikipedia says this about the term;

"congestive apoplexy was applied to those cases of coma where, at the autopsy, nothing was found to account for the coma and death except engorgement of the vessels of the brain and its membranes...Such terms are no longer used, owing to the better knowledge of the pathology of brain disease."


Antiquus Morbus website has the following on apoplexy;

"A disease produced by congestion or rupture of the vessels of the brain, and causing a sudden arrest of sense and motion, the person lying as if asleep, respiration and the heart's action continuing. [Thomas1875] Sudden impairment of neurological function, especially from a cerebral hemorrhage; a stroke. An effusion of blood into a tissue or organ. Archaic term for cerebral stroke [Heritage] The word "apoplexy" comes from the Greek "apoplexia" meaning a seizure, in the sense of being struck down. In Greek "plexe" is "a stroke." The ancients believed that someone suffering a stroke (or any sudden incapacity) had been struck down by the gods. [Medicinenet]"apoplexy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. [Webster]"

[Charney Jo]

Thanks everyone for your help!