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Old 13-06-2012, 02:40 PM
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Default Jane Weatheritt

Beyond the headstones; a Shilbottle tragedy:



On Saturday the 8th instant, an inquest was held at Shilbottle; near Alnwick, before Thomas Adams Russell, Esq., coroner, on the body of Jane Weatheritt, a fine girl, aged eleven years, the daughter of Luke Weatheritt, of that place, carter. On the Monday afternoon preceding, the deceased, with several other children, was playing beside a metal roller, which was standing in a field, on the side of a hill, considerably inclined, and the children having succeeded in starting the roller, were unable to control it or stop it again, and the deceased being in front of it, was run over by it, and so severely crushed in the head and body, that she died from the effects of the injuries she sustained on the Friday morning following. Verdict—Accidental death.

[The Newcastle Courant Friday, May 14, 1852]



[St James' Churchyard Shilbottle]
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