Tweet
Thought I'd share a little discovery made this week relating to an ancestor who died in the early 1800's, I have an image of the headstone, where he lived and worked, copies of probate, images of the church were he married and where his children were baptised but nothing relating to his death bar the headstone and burial from the parish register, then I found an article on the online newspaper archive relating the following story....
To the many awful instances of sudden death which we have lately recorded, we have to add the following:- On Friday last, Mr Page Goulson, a farrier of considerable celebrity, at Car Colston, near Bingham, was sent for to the premises of Mr. Bean, a respectable farmer, of Orston, in the same neighbourhood, to attend a horse of his: after seeing the animal, he was riding towards Mr Bean’s house, accompanied by the latter gentleman on foot: they had gone but a short distance, when Mr. Bean perceived his friend in the act of falling from his horse: he caught him in his arms and conveyed him, in a senseless condition, into his house; medical aid was obtained as speedily as possible, and Mr Goulson so far rallied as to be able, on Saturday to talk a little but very incoherently: he soon afterwards fell into a stupor, and continued so until seven o’clock on Sunday morning when he expired.-He was well known and as well respected; and was about 60 years of age
It's now part of my flickr site and added to TP too
To the many awful instances of sudden death which we have lately recorded, we have to add the following:- On Friday last, Mr Page Goulson, a farrier of considerable celebrity, at Car Colston, near Bingham, was sent for to the premises of Mr. Bean, a respectable farmer, of Orston, in the same neighbourhood, to attend a horse of his: after seeing the animal, he was riding towards Mr Bean’s house, accompanied by the latter gentleman on foot: they had gone but a short distance, when Mr. Bean perceived his friend in the act of falling from his horse: he caught him in his arms and conveyed him, in a senseless condition, into his house; medical aid was obtained as speedily as possible, and Mr Goulson so far rallied as to be able, on Saturday to talk a little but very incoherently: he soon afterwards fell into a stupor, and continued so until seven o’clock on Sunday morning when he expired.-He was well known and as well respected; and was about 60 years of age
It's now part of my flickr site and added to TP too
Comment