I'm using a death certificate I recently obtained for one of my Ducy ancestors as an example for the magazine. It was our designer Paul who pointed out (can't believe I hadn't noticed) that the informant on the certificate was the coroner. So this evening I checked the newspapers for a report of the inquest:
Yesterday (Tuesday) an inquest was held before W. Hayes, jun., Esq., deputy coroner, at the Angel Inn, in this town, on the body of a child four months old, named Winifred Ducey, who died on the previous Sunday, from the effects of scalds received nine days previously by the contents of a coffee pot (which accidentally fell from the fire) passing over her. Verdict accordingly.
Our 2x great grandfather's little sister. Having fled Ireland about 1846/7, his family didn't find life was that much better in England. They lost three more infants (cause of death was essentially poverty and squalid living conditions) before they picked up again and fled to America. The parents and the four children that survived were all successful, in some cases considerably so, and died in genuine, not just relative, comfort.