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The Lighter Side / Re: What was the saddest death in your Tree ?
« on: Monday 24 April 06 04:00 BST (UK) »
My great great great great grandmother Bidget PEGUM died of the effects of exposure to the cold and wet.
Informant H J Andrews, coroner.
Jury at the above inquest considered behaviour of Thomas Pegum to be most reprehensible, being guilty of neglect, want of feeding and total indifference to her death. Couple quarrelled frequently and he once chased his wife around the house with a bayonet. On the night she died, they had quarrelled - he went to the beach with a bottle of rum, climbed back into the house through a window instead of the door and made no attempt to find her. Awake about 5 a m and found her dead of exposure outside. Dragged her body inside and went to report it to Sgt. Samuel Davies of Police Auckland.
This is the saddest death in my family tree. Thomas was part of the Fencibles which came to NZ in the 1840's.
The above cause of death sounds a bit dodgy to me......
Informant H J Andrews, coroner.
Jury at the above inquest considered behaviour of Thomas Pegum to be most reprehensible, being guilty of neglect, want of feeding and total indifference to her death. Couple quarrelled frequently and he once chased his wife around the house with a bayonet. On the night she died, they had quarrelled - he went to the beach with a bottle of rum, climbed back into the house through a window instead of the door and made no attempt to find her. Awake about 5 a m and found her dead of exposure outside. Dragged her body inside and went to report it to Sgt. Samuel Davies of Police Auckland.
This is the saddest death in my family tree. Thomas was part of the Fencibles which came to NZ in the 1840's.
The above cause of death sounds a bit dodgy to me......