Blown up - Thomas Brown 1820 of the FOD (Inquests)

by ChrisW @, Monday, April 07, 2008, 09:31 (5834 days ago) @ admin

Jul 31. On the 17th inst. an inquest was taken at Purton Passage, near Berkeley, before Wm Joyner Ellis, Esq. one of the Coroners for this county, on view of the body of THOMAS BROWN, aged 39, a miner in the employ of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company, who was forced to a height of 20 yards in the air by the explosion of a large quantity of gunpowder used to blow up part of the rock at Sharpness Point, and was literally shattered to pieces. Verdict, Accidental Death. He was a native of the Forest of Dean, of a good character, and has left a wife and two children to deplore his untimely end.

No burial found


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