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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #18 on: Monday 29 July 13 11:30 BST (UK) »
 There  maybe   a newspaper  report  about  the  death , ( maybe a Slough  local  paper ? )

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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #19 on: Monday 29 July 13 11:33 BST (UK) »
So in effect - he was murdered !!!  if he slipped it was an accident - but pushed ?
Not very nice for you to find that - as Jan has stated - I presume there was a coroners report ?...wonder if anyone was ever charged ?
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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #20 on: Monday 29 July 13 11:41 BST (UK) »
Not sure how to find out about it, would they have reported that in a newspaper in 1931? Sounds like murder to me, after all he had to very young children at home  :(

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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #21 on: Monday 29 July 13 11:45 BST (UK) »
As for the John Henry Putnam that I mentioned as to being on the 1911 but there's absolutely no mention whatsoever anywhere, I still haven't a scoobie  ::)

  George  James  Putman    was married  twice , ( which  you  may   know  about  ) and   he  had children   from the first  marriage ,  so maybe  John Henry  aged 11  months   was  a  grandson,  born to  an  unmarried daughter ,    I   see  from Ancestry  there's  an Ada Putnam  marrying  in   so  maybe  John Henry  was  hers   and   thus  after  her  marriage took  his stepfathers name  ,

 It was  fairly  common  back then to   pass  off  a  grandchild  as   ones   own child   to spare  the  gossip  surrounding   illegitimacy,( and Eleanor  being  a second wife)  was  young  enough  to be considered the  mother


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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #22 on: Monday 29 July 13 11:46 BST (UK) »
Hi,

The death certificate will show if there was an inquest; will also give the name of the Coroner.  If you are lucky the file will be at the county archives.


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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #23 on: Monday 29 July 13 11:47 BST (UK) »

Got him ! ?

Indexed as Thomas George PUTMAN in the census I can't tell you about.

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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #24 on: Monday 29 July 13 11:50 BST (UK) »
Hi

Which therefore should make this a distinct possibility . . . . .

Birth Sep 1899 Edmonton 3a 541 Thomas George Putnam

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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #25 on: Monday 29 July 13 12:15 BST (UK) »
Thank you! I'll order the death certificate of Tom (George Thomas Putnam -the one who got pushed off the train) and the birth certificate of John Henry Putnam so I can see who his mother was! The marrying twice by my grandfather has caused a bit of confusion while researching!  ;D

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Re: Death on the Railway?
« Reply #26 on: Monday 29 July 13 12:24 BST (UK) »
The birth certificate will tell you for sure, but at the moment I wouldn't think there's any particular reason to suppose that John wasn't Eleanor's son.  FreeBMD shows two subsequent Putnam births with mmn Angel in Edmonton (1912 and 1916) suggesting the couple were still having children after 1911.
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