Hi Alf. I saw you had posted something about Staffordshire graveyards. I have been looking for more information about a young girl, Sarah Jane Pickering, who burned to death in Silverdale in 1864. And her father Henry Fenwick who taught school there and was quite popular, know as "The poet of the village" according to his obit in a 1975 Uttoexeter paper. (In 1872 he and family moved to Doveriddge in Derbyshire where he became manager of the cooperative, and again was quite popular. I've been trying to find anything bout his daughter's death, anything he wrote, any other records, but have very little other than the obit and a reference to his daughter's death and inquest. Sarah Jane's death certificate, #345, Wolstanton, Staffordshire, lists two words as the cause of death: "By burning" An inquest was held on 4 April 1864 by coroner W. Harding
Any wisdom about where I might look?
THanks,
Wallace