Indexed newspapers - what's been your best find?

[Les de B]

I've too have had some great(?) discoveries from both UK and Australian newspapers Just to name three, which were all very detailed in their reporting;

1) Attempted Murder by my gg grandfather upon my gg grandmother by cutting her throat in 1866 - he was sentenced to 6 months gaol. There were a number of articles, from the time of the offence until his conviction.

2) 1790's pistol duel involving my ggg grandfather which he lost with a musket ball to his face, but which he survived. However, another news article from 1810 indicated his luck ran out when he didn't survive a self inflicted musket ball to the head after being dismissed from the army. The original duel was reported in 17 newspapers of the day (though similar wording), indicating a mortal wound, however, only one newspaper a few days later reported him being saved by his brother-in-law (a doctor).

3) The 1836 suicide by poisoning of my ggg grandfather in Paris (but reported in London Times) due to his gambling debts. This article was extremely detailed, including a previously unknown 2nd marriage.

I suppose these are fairly graphic examples, but they certainly making VERY interesting Family Tree researching, escpecially when I found them first.

Les

[coombs]

I am still awaiting newspapers for the Allegheny area of PA.

[angelfish58]

A number of useful marriage and death announcements plus:

1 An inquest into a suicide

2 Details of the murder of my ggg grandfathers brother

3 My ggg grandfather was a policeman in Darlington during the late 1830s/1840s so there are a handful of reports featuring him, not altogether flattering it must be said.

4 A number of articles about the railway accident in which my gg grandfathers half brother was involved. He was only 15 and died after having his leg amputated which apparently had been "crushed almost to jelly"  

[Deb D]

So far, I've found ...

*  Hubby's gggrandfather advertising repeatedly for the return of a stolen horse (!)
*  All the sordid details of my gt gt grandfather's divorce from my gt gt grandmother

and perhaps the most curious; -

*  Someone with the same name as my gt grandfather (albeit a little late, seeing as he'd emigrated to Australia 30-odd years earlier) was present aboard a new White Star liner when it was taken out for a test-run by Captain Smith.  Mr Ismay was also present.

[rainbow 1]

  The Wildridge family on ancestry.co.uk  newspapers from Syracuse NY "The Syracuse Herald" and the " Herald -Journal"....