1863 Coroner's Inquest

[KCMurray]

Gggrandma died of a "concussion of the brain from an accidental fall down stairs". The informant box says "information received from Wm Johnson, Coroner for Cheshire. Inquest held 10th June 1863."

In 1863 would an inquest have been held simply because no one was in attendance at the death or because there were potential suspicious circumstances?

Insights?

Kathleen

[uksearch]

Take a look at the following link.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/publicrecs.html#Coroners (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/publicrecs.html#Coroners)

UK

[Geoffers]

In the link posted by UK, the first sentence...... "The role of a Coroner was to be informed of all sudden deaths and cases where the deceased had not been seen by a doctor within two weeks of death."........is not completely accurate.


It should add something along the lines of "seen by a doctor within two weeks of death....for that illness which was the principal cause of death."

There need not be suspicious circumstances to warrant an inquest.

Geoffers