Thanks to the Gale newspaper trial, I've come across the death of a distant cousin who died in the terrible Thirsk railway collision on 2nd Nov 1892. He was the guard on the goods train which was hit by the express passenger train.
However, one of the newspaper reports says that he leaves a widow and seven children. I have him as possibly married to Mary Lowe in 1874 and her possible death in 1885. They are together on the 1881 census RG11; Piece: 4853; Folio: 46; Page: 8, no sign of any children, and he is on his own as a lodger in 1891, RG12; Piece: 4014; Folio 28; Page 7.
I'd be glad of a second opinion as to whether I've got the right George Petch or whether the newspaper report has got it wrong. His death is given in the Ipswich Journal (he was originally from Suffolk) as son of the late William Petch of Culford. No mention of a widow or children.
Jane
However, one of the newspaper reports says that he leaves a widow and seven children. I have him as possibly married to Mary Lowe in 1874 and her possible death in 1885. They are together on the 1881 census RG11; Piece: 4853; Folio: 46; Page: 8, no sign of any children, and he is on his own as a lodger in 1891, RG12; Piece: 4014; Folio 28; Page 7.
I'd be glad of a second opinion as to whether I've got the right George Petch or whether the newspaper report has got it wrong. His death is given in the Ipswich Journal (he was originally from Suffolk) as son of the late William Petch of Culford. No mention of a widow or children.
Jane
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