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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 15 August 13 21:33 BST (UK) »
My thoughts exactly - the item was headed "Narrow Escape"!!
The Glagow Herald carried a similar report on 19 Nov, describing it as a "serious accident", mentioning "arm severely bruised" and "Fortunately, he sustained no other injury".

The accident occurred on Thursday 12 November. What was the date of death?

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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 15 August 13 22:09 BST (UK) »
One would suspect undiagnosed internal bleeding/organ damage, perhaps causing him to collapse or pass away in his sleep 24-48 hours later.

Incidentally, there could not have been a Fatal Accident Inquiry in 1874/75, as they were only introduced in 1895 - prior to that the investigation of sudden deaths fell under the common law jurisdiction of the procurator fiscal, who did not, as now, require to be a legally qualified civil servant holding a Commission from the Lord Advocate, but could be a part-time appointment held by a local lawyer.

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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #11 on: Friday 16 August 13 00:12 BST (UK) »
Good find hanes teulu, it looks like he died three days later. Which makes it odd that the Glasgow Herald on the 19th doesn't mention that he had died.

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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 17 August 13 09:40 BST (UK) »
Hello,

Peter McTaig is buried at Paulville in common ground, buried on 17/11/1874. As already posted, lived in Livery Street and was a plate layer. Age is given as 46 years and cause of death through accident.


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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 17 August 13 11:14 BST (UK) »
Hi there Mags, how are you. Quite a few of mine in common ground in Paulville, including I believe, the lady I was looking at in the first place.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 22 August 13 18:20 BST (UK) »
Glad I came across this. My great grandmother's half-brother was knocked down and killed by an engine near Blackridge in 1923 and his death certificate had the extra information in the column on the left hand side, but I didn't know what it said. Now I know it's about the coroner's report. Now going to see if I can find anything in the papers!
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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 22 August 13 18:38 BST (UK) »
Iain - Have you tried searching the National Archives [sorry - new name Records] of Scotland website
nas.gov.uk
for the fatal accident inquiry?

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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 22 August 13 18:51 BST (UK) »
Iain - Have you tried searching the National Archives [sorry - new name Records] of Scotland website
nas.gov.uk
for the fatal accident inquiry?

Josey

Hi Josey. I'm going to do that next. I found his corrected register entry, which gave me one more piece of information, mainly that he was last seen 35 mins prior to being discovered.
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Re: Bathgate railway accident, McTague
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 22 August 13 22:30 BST (UK) »
You have missed djct's post above in which he pointed out that Fatal Accident Inquiries did not take place before 1895, so there will not be one in this case.
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