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05 January 1869 - Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser

Death
December 25, at her residence, Great Ancoats street, aged 60 years, Sarah, relict of the late Isaac Bailey, of this city.

(any good folks, apologies if not relating!)

Chris :)

Hi Chris, yes this is great. Sorry for the late reply I have been away for the night -

is there any chance you could please look up those newspapers again for me?only look up on the following, which was Samuel Bailey's son - His name is John Bailey and the following info was emailed to me from the librarian of Cheadle Hulme School- (I have been looking for info on the inquest but Lancashire County Council seems to think a lot of records were destroyed, but I may find more on it in the local newspapers... )
Died July 30th 1894 at Selborne Road Chorlton cum Hardy. Death certificate gives cause of death as poisoning with the following information: “The effects of swallowing a quantity of Laudanum. Self-administered, no evidence to show for what purpose or with what intent it was taken.” (At the time Laudanum was freely available and was widely used as a cure for toothache – this could well have been a simple overdose. An inquest was held on the 31st July 1894 but I haven’t been able to trace the findings so far. The then Deputy Coroner for Manchester, John Frederick Price, signed a death certificate on the 2nd August 1894.
The above info on Sarah is correct :-)

Sorry Sandy, did have a look the other day, now tried again with just address, helps sometimes, or even just name of Coroner...not sure Newspaper coverage is complete, did he leave a Will? (one on Ancestry for Sarah).

Chris :)

Hi Chris, no I could not find a probate record for him, as he was only 49 when he died

I have lots of other probates for other members of his family, but not him

thanks for checking for me though :-)