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Old 14-03-2014, 12:43 PM
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Default Chevington Churchyard Burials

The story behind the name......Hannah Grieves, aged 28 of Togston Crescent, buried 28 September 1899.
Morpeth Herald, 30 September:
"Dr C Clarke Burman, deputy coroner for North Northumberland, held an inquest on Wednesday at the Broomhill Hotel, Broomhill, on the body of Hannah Grieves, who was found dead in a poss-barrel, on Tuesday, under the following circumsatnces:-George Grieves, miner, Togston Terrace, deposed that deceased was his wife, aged 28 years. On Tuesday he laft home at 5.45 a.m. His wife was quite well. She was pregnant, seven months. She had an epileptic fit six months ago. About 3.35 p.m. he was sent for to the pit. He found deceased lying on the floor, and some of the neighbours were in the house.......
Jane Jordan deposed that she and a neighbour had gone together becasue the deceased's child was crying and found the deceased in the poss barrel. Her head would be covered with the water. Her feet were hanging over the edge of the barrel, quite off the floor. They removed her. She was quite dead.......
Peter Rough, medical practitioner, residing at Broomhill, deposed that on Tuesday he was sent for to see Mrs Grieves, who was said to have taken a fit and fallen into a poss barrel. He found deceased on the floor, dead. He found no marks of violence on the body and it was very probable that deceased had had a fit and might have fallen into the poss barrel if she was stooping over, and death would ensue from suffocation....."
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