William Arthur Toates

[tazzie]

Hi on the GRO site......you have to register and create a password but it is free.

  Tazzie

Ps glasses were in the ironing like I kept staring at.....given in and started ironing >:(really

[cuffie81]

Newspaper reference for Joseph Toates. Doesn't help figuring out who's who but I thought it might be of interest.

Herts & Cambs Reporter & Royston Crow
08 Oct 1897
page 8, column 3
Cambridge
Fatal Accident
An inquest was held at the Workhouse yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, respecting the death of Joseph Toates, relief porter at Histon Station, who died from the result of injuries received whilst in the performance of his duties on Wednesday afternoon. Deceased, who was 55 years of age, and lived at Impington, was knocked down by a passing train. A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded.

[bobtonks]

I checked the GRO ... very useful ... thank you for that.

The report in the local paper indicates that Joseph Toates inadvertently stepped from behind a stationary train into the path of a another slow moving train ... quite sad.

In 1911 his wife Susan lived in the house across the road and a few doors down from where I now live.