Looking for an inquest.

[dawnsh]

Hi

While this suggestion is a good one, I think that this may not be available in England & Wales, NI is a separate jurisdiction.

The death did not happen in hospital so there wouldn't be any hospital records. Even if there were, they would most probably still be closed for whatever time remains of the closure period. 

The actual post-mortem would most probably have been carried out by the coroner and has already been mentioned, most probably destroyed by now.

However, it might be worth contacting Doncaster Archives (is this where Moorends is near?) to see if they can help.

http://library.doncaster.gov.uk/web/arena/coroners-records

Dawn

[jess5athome]

Hi,
Shughes, many thanks for your input, as said NI is possibly a separate jurisdiction but I will give it a go. What a sad story regarding your half brother, children never see the dangers in things, in fact we don't see it ourselves till we get older.
dawnsh, thank you for the link, emails have been sent today to see if I can turn anything up, Moorends is indeed near Doncaster but according to the link it may have been covered by Wakefield, anyway emails have been sent to both, (no harm in giving them both something to read  ).
Regards always,
Frank.

[jess5athome]

Hi, just to update the thread and to let you all know how it is going, I have today received the death certificate and it shows me everything I need to know regarding the death of Gerardus, it gives me the cause of death ( Grim Reading ) and the name of the coroner and the date of the inquest, Wakefield archives are kindly looking into the possibility that the record of the inquest is still available.
Many thanks to you all once again for your very kind input and as always my very best regards,
Frank.

[nanny jan]

Thanks for the update; let's hope that Wakefield archives have the file.

Nanny Jan

[jess5athome]

Hi, just to update further my search for the inquest report, ..... It's not good news.
Wakefield archives did not hold the inquest report and they advised me to contact Doncaster archives.
According to what I have been told by Doncaster archives there is a 75 year closure rule applied to the coroners records and the coroner also has the right to destroy any record after only 15 years because he has no obligation in law to keep them for longer than that time  ......... Yes you've guessed it, there are no coroners records for that time because the then coroner decided in his wisdom to destroy them all 
However, I have now been in touch with the local studies group at Doncaster central library and they tell me that they hold copies of local Doncaster newspapers for that time and also the Doncaster edition of the Yorkshire Evening Post, all  on micro film so that when I get the chance I will go along and have a search through them.
Regards always,
Frank.