Don't know how much use it will provide, but stumbled on this thread and couldn't help but contribute. Local historian, based at Newcastle Uni, currently working with Berwick's extensive Coroner's Reports collection.
3 Redpaths crop up from 1750 to 1875.
- Edward Redpath, whose inquiry is listed 17 December 1838, is ruled to have died accidentally unsuspiciously after his nightgown caught fire.
- An inquiry for a stillborn child, given the surname Redpath, is listed 30th October 1852. No name, gender or parents are given for the child, but the entry does make note that it is an illegitimate child.
- John Redpath, whose inquiry is listed 7th November 1873, dies accidentally. He died at 19 years old.
I've listed no further detail from John's death - simply not pertinent to my work so didn't gather it at the archive - but most inquiries are remarked about in the Berwick Advertiser, at around about the same date that the inquest is registered. I'll have a neb myself, see if I can provide the newspaper clipping if it's there, and throw it into this thread if you're interested.
Don't know if this helps, hinders, complicates or just adds a bit more detail, just felt I should pop it on here in case it closes any gaps you have.
Ta,
Madge
