[QUOTE=Coquet;954]Some months back I was looking through the microfilm in alnwick library -the Alnwick Mercury or perhaps Alnwick Gazette for something and came across another very tragic death of a child; year was 1903.
There is an article in the Shileds Gazette of 15 April 1903: "Death from Burns at Amble - The death of a girl named Ann Grundy, from burns at Amble, was inquired into at the Masons' Arms, Amble, yesterday afternoon, by Mr. Charles Percy. From the evidence it appeared that the girl was attempting to reach something on the mantelpiece when she fell forward into the fire. She immediately rushed into the open air. She died twelve hours afterwards in great agony. The verdict was "Death from Shock, the result of burns.""
She is buried in the East Cemetery, aged 5 1/2 of Scott Street, on 15 April.
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