7/4/1851 Robert marshall leslie; age nk; hawker of stoneware
death sudden - in Pathhead - see Fifeshire journal 8 April
Hi Montana this is from the local paper
Fifeshire Journal 8th April 1851
Sudden Death ---- Yesterday Robert Marshall Hawker of Stoneware,
belonging to Leslie, while plying his vocation here, called at the house
of one of our villagers in a state of partial intoxication and asked permission
to rest himself. He was put to into bed but not awakening at the time expected,
the women of the house on going to call him found him cold and lifeless.
The immediate cause of his death was Apoplexy, brought on by hard drinking.
I would assume he must have known this women quite well
to have been allowed to use her bed to rest,
maybe she was more than a villager, or has this women
some connection to the David Westwater with who Robert shared a grave,
when David Westwater wife Janet Thomson died in 1856
there was no room in Davids grave and she was buried in her son in laws grave of David Hoy.
NorrieG