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Title: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: Mike R on Monday 01 September 14 19:56 BST (UK)

Hello I am just getting into some family research & wondered if anybody knows if Bootle in Sefton (previously Lancs) has any Inquest records available (on fiche etc)?
I have a relative who died on the Docks & an inquest was held in 1929.

Mike

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: nanny jan on Monday 01 September 14 20:16 BST (UK)

Hi,

Welcome to Rootschat.  :)

You could contact the Lancashire archives and ask if the Inquest file is available;  many have not survived.

http://new.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office.aspx

If not you could search for a report in local newspapers.


Nanny Jan

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 01 September 14 20:28 BST (UK)

Hi and welcome from me too

Don't get your hopes up that there will be anything of value in the report.  My paternal grandfather was killed in an industrial accident in 1919 and the wording on his death cert was identical to that on the coroners/inquest report (ie) 

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Injuries to head caused accidentally by coming in contact with a revolving shafting on 16th inst

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: Mike R on Monday 01 September 14 20:28 BST (UK)

Hi Nanny Jan, that was quick!

I have had a look at that site & not seen anything relevant yet. I have already found the newspaper report, which is how I know there was an inquest.

I'm hoping to get to Crosby library sometime to see what they have available. I've been to Liverpool doing other family members and checked their coroners listings on the off chance it was held in Liverpool. Bootle is an odd place (for many reasons.....) but it is sometimes Lancs and then Liverpool for some things (like Street Directories).

Mike

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: Mike R on Monday 01 September 14 20:30 BST (UK)

Quote from: CaroleW on Monday 01 September 14 20:28 BST (UK)

Hi and welcome from me too

Don't get your hopes up that there will be anything of value in the report.  My paternal grandfather was killed in an industrial accident in 1919 and the wording on his death cert was identical to that on the coroners/inquest report (ie) 

Quote

Injuries to head caused accidentally by coming in contact with a revolving shafting on 16th inst

Thanks CaroleW - I saw the Liverpool listings, and they were scant to say the least, and terribly written too! I expect to fail and get impressed when I succeed :-)

Mike

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 01 September 14 21:06 BST (UK)

Following an inquest, there is no such thing as a "coroner's report", in the sense of a structured narrative setting out what happened.  Individual Coroners decide what happens to the papers, and very many of them were destroyed by the coroner.

Stan

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: Mike R on Monday 01 September 14 21:11 BST (UK)

Thanks Stan, I know anything is unlikely, I thought the best there might be would be a list (like Liverpool).

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: garstonite on Tuesday 02 September 14 08:12 BST (UK)

Old Mersey Times - deaths and inquests 1920 - 1929 covered most of Merseyside ..
http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/deathsandinquests1920to1929.html

I haven`t looked - have a look yourself - you might be in luck
good luck
 :)

Title: Re: Hello There I'm New - Bootle Coroners Records?
Post by: Mike R on Tuesday 02 September 14 09:00 BST (UK)

Hello Garstonite, thanks for that. Interesting site.

Mike