Grantley DUFTY c1855 A Painful Death (General)

by ChrisW , Thursday, June 19, 2008, 11:32 (6010 days ago) @ dink999

I'm sure I've read something about this death. Was it something to do with a colliery or ironworks celebration that went horribly wrong?

Record_ID: 52280
Entry_Number: 730
Year: 1871
Month: Nov
Day: 8
Surname: DUFTY
Forenames: Grantley
Residence: Bream's Woodside
Age_at_death: 15
Officiating_Minister: J F Gosling
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P57 IN 1/17
Page_No: 92
Parish_Chapel: Bream
Soundex: D130

Just found the one I was thinking of. That was 16 yr old Edwin Goold who was killed in 1836 by a cannon exploding. The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone for two new blast furnaces, with the associated celebrations.