Inquest of Fanny BALLINGER died 1936 Blakeney (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, May 16, 2013, 23:27 (4210 days ago)

Please can anyone help clarify some key individuals in the following Inquest off this site ?.
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/inquests/php/popup.htm?../images/H240.png

The Inquest is for a "Fanny Ballinger aged 84 years, who dies after falling on the bathroom floor at No 1 High Street Westbury-O-Severn on August 1st 1936, a collier".
The Inquisition was at P.A.I. Westbury, attended by Benjamin WRIGHT MRCS.

I have Severnside Ballingers in my C20th line and wonder if this is a relation, similarly the officiating Surgeon Wright ?.

My first query is regarding Fanny's sex ?. I've extensively searched this site's PRs, GlosBMD and FreeBMD for a likely birth about 1852 but without luck, searching both Ballinger and Bellinger as experience has taught. There are a few un-named "female" Ballingers/Bellingers registered which are possibles, but the Inquest states "a collier" which to me suggests a male ?. In my experience Fannys are always females, sometimes baptised Frances. Could this Fanny perhaps have been a male Francis, was Fanny ever used for a male, surely Fran's more likely ?. Besides, this is far too recent to have been a female collier, isn't it ??.
So am I placing too much emphasis on the "a collier" note, or ???

Here is the Burial, from this site's PRS, ditto on FreeBMD;

Record_ID: 3435
Entry_Number: 477
Year: 1936
Month: Aug
Day: 6
Surname: BALLINGER
Forenames: Fanny
Residence: Blakeney
Age_at_death: 84
Officiating_Minister: Leonard W Cook
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P50 IN 1/19
Page_No: 60
Parish_Chapel: Blakeney
Soundex: B452

If anyone can please add some more details to the life of this person I'd be very grateful, thankyou.
Similarly the Surgeon/Doctor Benjamin Wright, please ?.
I imagine there are searchable Registers of the College of Surgeons which might help place him more closely ?

This site's PRs only lists four Benjamin Wrights. IF this Doctor is a local man this seems the most likely candidate, as far as my search parameters were concerned it's coincidental he's also from Blakeney area but may perhaps help his case ?, a shame his occupation isn't stated !

Record_ID: 27683
Entry_Number: [not stated]
Year: 1906
Month: Dec
Day: 24
Grooms_Surname: WRIGHT
Grooms_Forenames: Benjamin William
Grooms_Age: not
Groom_Condition: Bachelor
Grooms_Occupation: not stated
Grooms_Residence: Gatcombe Blakeney
Grooms_Fathers_Surname: Wright
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames: John
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation: not stated
Brides_Surname: ASTON
Brides_Forenames: Mary Ann
Brides_Age: not
Brides_Condition: Spinster
Brides_Occupation: not stated
Brides_Residence: New Road Blakeney
Brides_Fathers_Surname: Aston
Brides_Fathers_Forenames: James
Brides_Fathers_Occupation: [not stated]
Licence_or_Banns: [not stated]
Date_of_Banns: [not stated]
Signature_or_Mark: [not stated]
Witness_1: [not stated]
Witness_2: [not stated]
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: G. D. Brown
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes: Any abbreviated forenames have been expanded to the full name
Register_Reference: D2758/1
Page_Number: 3
Parish_Chapel: Blakeney Baptist
Soundex_Groom: W623
Soundex_Bride: A235

This is an intriguing find as I also have Astons in my tree, albeit distant.

I believe this is the related Birth, from GlosBMD;

Birth Details
Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
WRIGHT Benjamin William WRIGHT WRIGHT WRIGHT 1878 Forest of Dean Westbury on Severn, Newnham 44 221

Marriage Details
Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
WRIGHT Benjamin William ASTON Mary Ann Forest of Dean Westbury-on-Severn (FoD) Register Office 1906 13 199

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This site's Inquests database holds a total of five attended by Doctor Wright, all within 1936-1937 and all in the Westbury area.

So, if anyone can please help me find out about Fanny Ballinger/Bellinger and Benjamin Wright MRCS I would be very gratefull, thankyou, Jeff.

PS
I've answered my final query wrt "P.A.I.".
Via this great Forum I know "Number 1 High Street Westbury" was used as the "p/c" address for the old Workhouse c1900s. By searching the Workhouses Website I find P.A.I. meant Public Assistance Institution, the new name given to the old "Workhouses" when they were officially "abolished" in 1929. Even as late as 1939 there were still almost 100,000 people accommodated in the now Council-run P.A.I.s, almost 6000 being children. It was not until the National Assistance Act of 1948 that the last vestiges of the Poor Law disappeared, and with them the P.A.I./Workhouses.

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I'm sorry I am unable to include the full Inquest details either as an Image(I did try but cannot work it out, sorry), or by copy & pasting.

Note to Admin: is it possible the site could be tweeked to enable us to copy & paste text from Inquests, or copy the entire image, just as it already allows easy text copying of Wills for example as per the PRs ?. Or if it's already possible, please explain how ?. I have found several Inquests on this wonderful site that relate to my family tree, including perhaps this one, and it's a little tedious but more worryingly prone to error my typing them out in full, rather than copy & paste. I hope this can easily be achieved.
Thanks as ever, Jeff.