Pub in Newbury

[Trees]

This is building up to be an interesting story I have written to the tree owner to see if he has the actual death certificate for Benjamin will report back. I don't particularly want to get it as this is my cousin's late husband's tree not my own and these are a little off the trunk too but its building an interesting tree for her children full ofinteresting  little stories.

[newburychap]

The coroner's report may be more interesting than the DC - BRO:N/JQ 10/2/79

I'll put it on the list of things to do at the BRO.

[Trees]

Such a shame I was in thr RFeading RO last week just before I found all this well really what i found there has lead to this chase I can't see us getting back for a while so it would be great if you could do a look up thank you
 

[newburychap]

No problem.  Not sure when it will be.

This thread did get me back into Newbury pub research - even found three more pubs.  Okay two of them, both called the Queen Caroline, look like alternate names for pubs I already knew about - but the third could be totally new. And with an outstandingly non-PC name 'The Cripples'! I guess even in the 1850s it wasn't that good a name as it doesn't seem to have lasted long.

[Trees]

Cheers!
I love the pub research I now have about 150 connected with the tree they usually throw up interesting side stories you can see mine...well most of them on my web site under occupations publicans 
Happy hunting give the RO staff my regards i think we've driven them mad over the Blue Coat School on our visits this year 
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[newburychap]

Okay - I can now confirm that Benjamin Weston committed suicide, but took 20 days to die.

He cut his own throat with a razor on 3 Jul 1848 and 'lingered and languished' until the 23rd when he died. The jury ruled that ' the said Benjamin Weston not being of sound mind memory and understanding but lunatic and disturbed in the manner and by the means aforesaid did kill himself'.

The inquest was held at the Two Brewers before Joseph Bunny, Newbury coroner and a jury.

The inquest is reference is N/JQ 10/2/80 (not 79 as listed in the BRO catalogue and the BFHS index to coroners' records at the BRO).  The BRO are now aware of the issue so their index should be fixed soon (it appears that a number of them are mis-indexed by 1 in this manner).

[Trees]

Many many thanks that was a very sad and I should think extremely painful death for such an old man  . I'll let my cousin know about it straight away.
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