Deaths and Inquests 1813 -1823

Deaths and Inquests

Deaths and Inquests 1813 - 1823

From the pages of the Carlisle Patriot (CP) and Carlisle Journal (CJ)April 4th 1813CJOn Sunday morning the body of Mr George Graham, farmer at Westlinton, was found drowned in the river Line. It appears that the deceased, on the preceding morning, set out to go to his brother?s house at some little distance; the footpath to which led close by the side of the river. It is therefore conjectured that the deceased, who was subject to fits, had been overcome by one and had fallen into the water.Coroner?s verdict: accidental deathJune 26th 1813CJAt Brampton fair, on Wednesday se?enight, the following awful occurrence took place. As Mr John Foster of Catlody was in one of the tents with a person to whom he had sold a cow, the glass suddenly fell from his hand; this happened a second time, when he fell down and instantly expired.December 31st 1814CJOn Saturday evening, as Mr Robert Bell, carrier of Longtown, was proceeding toward the village of Stanwix, having just crossed the bridge, his horse fell, and Mr Bell was precipitated to the ground with a violent shock. On his situation being discovered, medical assistance was procured, but in vain, the poor man died the same night.September 6th 1817CJAt Longtown on Monday last, Mr Thomas Murray, weaver and porter, dropped down while crossing the street and expired immediately.January 15th 1818CJOn the 2nd inst a woman with a child in her arms fell from the top of the mail coach between Longtown and Langholm, and unfortunately the mother was much bruised and the child killed on the spot.March 7th 1818CJA few days since, the infant daughter of John Telfer of Nether Oakshaw in the parish of Bewcastle was left in the house by its mother, when the clothes of the child took fire, and the unfortunate sufferer was so dreadfully burnt as only to survive the accident a few hours.March 28th 1818CJAs Mr John Davidson, a respectable farmer of Lordstown in the parish of Bewcastle, was returning home from Carlisle Market on Saturday night last, when within two miles of his own dwelling it is supposed he had fallen from the fore-end board of the cart in which he was riding, and getting entangled in the traces, the horse had taken fright and ran off, when he was so dreadfully mangled about the head and body? that he expired the next day. The deceased was universally respected and his premature decease is much lamented.July 24th 1819 CJYesterday week, a young man of the name of Huggan, aged 19, was unfortunately drowned in the river Esk at Longtown, whilst bathing. He had been twenty minutes in the water before his body was found, and all attempts to resuscitate the spark of life failed.July 15th 1820CJOn the 12th inst whilst Mr Thomas Glendinning jun of Longtown was bathing in the river there, he was seized with an apoplectic fit, and though surgical aid was speedily procured, it was unavailing.September 2nd 1820CJOn Thursday last as James Farish a young man aged 17 was riding on a cart at Reaburnfoot near Longtown, he was by some means or other thrown from his seat and killed on the spot.October 28th 1820CJOn Monday last, as John Graham, labourer to Mr Graham of Crofthead, was conducting a horse and cart along the banks of the Esk, at a place called the Green-bed, and in a narrow and dangerous road, the animal was precipitated into the river and along with its driver, was unfortunately drowned.November 11th 1820CJAn inquest was held on Sunday on the body of a lad named Cook, aged 17 or 18, a resident in this city, who it appeared had been dispatched, along with a companion, to the scotch border, to procure illicitly distilled whiskey, and who, upon the road, had drank of it to such excess as to produce suffocation.October 13th 1821CJA widow woman of the name of Elizabeth Glendinning died in the infirmary at Dumfries yesterday week, after three weeks of the most painful suffering. This poor woman, while travelling between Longtown and Carlisle, had sat down by the side of a brick kiln, for the purpose of lighting her pipe, and while so employed, part of the heated bricks fell upon her and scorched her body in a dreadful manner? she was found in a very feeble state by some people who were passing, and who conveyed her to Gretna where she usually resided. After remaining there three days, she was conveyed to the Dumfries and Galloway infirmary, where it is needless to say the utmost attention was paid to her case, and the powers of medicine exhausted in endeavouring to alleviate if not remove the complaint under which she laboured.March 23rd 1822CJOn Sunday last, a respectably dressed man, after laying down his umbrella, deliberately walked into the river Esk, near the place where the Liddle flows into it, and after advancing up to his middle, threw himself down and was drowned ? his body has not yet been found.April 6th 1822CJOn Monday last at Longtown an inquest was held on the body of a man of the name of John Anderson, a native of Galloway, NB, who about a fortnight previous thereto had in a fit of lunacy, drowned himself near the junction of the rivers Esk and Liddell ? his body was not found until Sunday last, when it was discovered near to the side of the water, about 200 yards above the new bridge.September 21st 1822CJInquest on the 12th inst at Cowrigg in the parish of Arthuret on the body of Robert Wilson, aged 55, found hanging in a barn.January 11th 1823CJInquest at Longtown on the 2nd inst on the body of William Dixon, aged 17, who was killed by falling from a horseVerdict ? accidental death.February 15th 1823CJInquest at Longtown on the body of Elizabeth, the infant daughter of Thomas Armstrong of the Bush Inn, who met her death by hot water falling on her by accident.Verdict ? accidental death.March 8th 1823CJInquest; on Wednesday last an inquest was held at Scaleby Mill, in the parish of Scaleby, on the body of Walter Palmer, aged 71, who on that day had accidentally fallen off horseback, whereby he received a mortal wound in the head.Verdict ? accidental death.June 21st 1823CJOn Tuesday last an inquest was held before R Lowry Esq. on the body of Isabella Atkin of Mount in the parish of Kirklinton, who dropped down and instantly expired. By the evidence it did not appear that the deceased had been in any respect instrumental to her sudden exit from the world, and the jury consequently brought in a verdict of - died by the visitation of God.