Waggon Acc. Thomas Lock 1834 of Dymock? (Inquests)

by ChrisW , Monday, October 06, 2008, 22:17 (5902 days ago) @ ChrisW

April 5: FATAL ACCIDENT. On Friday se'nnight, as the waggon of Mr THURSTON, of Dymock, in this county, loaded with flagstones, was coming down the hill at Castlemorton, JAMES WATKINS, a boy of 14, who had the care of the horses while THOMAS LOCK, the waggoner, roade on the waggon, tried to stop the horses, to put the lock on; but the hill was so steep that he could not succeed, and the waggon was run up a bank and upset. Lock was thrown off, and the stones falling on him, he was dreadfully injured, the bones of the hips being fractured; the boy's left leg was much lacerated. They were conveyed to Worcester Infirmary, where it was found necessary to amputate the boy's leg. Every possible attention was paid to Lock, but mortification came on, and he died on Thursday. On Saturday Mr Gwinnell held an inquest on the body, and the Jury retured a verdict of Accidental Death. The boy is doing well.

No trace burial - possibly at Worcester?