Completed: How do I get an obituary from a London newspaper?

[forthefamily]

Thanks Janice M....

Something very spooky......I joined the Bedfordshire on line library as suggested and decided to see if I could find his wife's obit in the Times. She was a writer as well.

Would you believe she died in Bedfordshire  and may even be buried there. Talk about a coincidence  Too weird.

mab 

[Fear na mara]

I am trying to find an account of a coroner's inquest on a suicide in London,(St.Botolph's, near Tower Hill) in 1866
i saw the paper records of the coroner's court crumble before my eyes last week. Would anyone know which newspaper might have reported on that.

[Janice M]

Do you know what street it happened on, or possibly names? Even an approximate date would help. I have access to the London Times, and it may have something in there.,

Janice

[Fear na mara]

Thank you for your kind offer Janice. I have the death certificate.
Ann Elliot, age 33, died 1 Oct 1866, at 2 Circus Minories, St.Botolph, suicide by swallowing a large quantity of Laudanum, about 3 hours. Temporary Insanity. Information received from Wm. Payne, Coroner London and Southwark. Inquest held 3 October 1866.
That location is the junction of Aldgate and the north end of Minories, almost facing St Botolph's Church. The Victorian building is long gone. It is now an unfortunate office block (2 - 6).
Ann was not an eminent person: a Scots girl waiting the return of her Scots husband, a sea captain in the Merchant Service, so I was not expecting to find an obit in the Times. However, suicide and similar gory events were grist for some papers, like the scandal monger, Charles Dickens rag, the Daily News.  I do not know enough about the content and coverage of the other papers to guess which might have made regular calls at the coroners courts.

[Janice M]

Here is the article about Ann Elliot.  I do have the pdf format as well, which shows the entire page. If you would lke that, then please send a personal message with your email and I will send it through to you.

Janice



Ann Elliot - Death

[Fear na mara]

Janice you are a gem. I am most grateful to you for finding this obit. Ann was my great grandfather's first wife.
As you see from the newspaper report - she had three children, the youngest not yet a year old.
John married again three years later and his wife Eliza died in Shanghai two years later. He died the following year on the anniversary of her death. Overseas certificates do not give the cause of death. This left my grandfather an orphan also. You might want to read an extended version of this on Rootschat - Scotland - Dumfries - "Annan, an elusive seaman".
Thank you very much - though bearing bad news, you have resolved the nagging question.
E

[Stoer]

I am collecting material for a biography of H C O'Neill.
I don't pretend to be at all professional, but have a fair outline.
Here is a picture of him, with his seventeen colleagues in the Foreign Office in 1918. He is at the back sitting under the clock, sixth from the left.
I have another version with all their names, but it exceeds the 500MB limit for this site.
I think I have all his direct descendants, but are still a lot of gaps in the families of his brothers and sisters .
I would be very grateful for any help you care to give.

[forthefamily]

Welcome to Rootschat Stoer....

How very interesting that you are writing a biography of H.C. O'Neill. What made you decide to pick him as a subject ?

mab

[Stoer]

mab:

I am not sure that it will get so far as a finished biography, but we certainly have a lot of data. Just tell me what you want to know.

We chose him because he was our father.

Best regards,

Stoer.