BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

1851 - 1853 (2 years)

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Name	Thomas Smith
Born	1851	Burscough
Gender	Male
Baptism	12 Oct 1851	St John the Baptist, Burscough [1]
Died	6 May 1853	Gobins Lane, Burscough
Buried	10 May 1853	St John the Baptist, Burscough [2]
Person ID	I14309	Canal Family 1
Last Modified	20 Apr 2024

Father	William Smith, b. 1819, Downholland
Mother	Alice Wareing, b. 22 Aug 1822, Burscough
Married	6 Apr 1840	St Peter, Liverpool [3]
Family ID	F02652	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Notes

A report headed 'Inquest at Burscough' in the Preston Chronicle, 14.5.1853, read: 'On Tuesday last an inquest was held at the house of Mr Richard Spencer, The Farmers Arms Inn, Burscough, before C E Driffield Esq, Coroner, and a respectable jury, touching the death of Thomas Smith, aged 18 months, son of William Smith of Burscough, boatman. It appeared from the evidence that on the preceding Friday night the child was playing about his father's door, and had not been more than 10 minutes out of his mother's sight when she found him drowned in a brook a few yards off. The brook skirts the common highway and, as there is no fence, the child it is supposed had fallen in.' Verdict: Accidental Death.