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Greensted Burials

Published in Issue 39

The following comments were recorded in the Register of Burials, by the Rector.

1840 – Jun 17: Edward, Edward, 44 of Bovinger with awful suddenness falling down while sharpening his scythe.

1842 – Jan 15: Mann, Joseph 63 with awful suddenness falling down dead in a field while walking with a parishioner.

1846 – Jan 25: Gibson, William 56 of Greensted Hall with awful suddenness. Went to bed in usual health, a corpse the next morning.

1846 – May 17: Lowing, John 44 of Stanford Rivers kill’d suddenly by the handle of the plough being forc’d ag’t his side through the horses turning round suddenly.

1851 – May 11: Piggott, John 52 killed suddenly by falling from the top of a wagon load of straw.

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recorded in the Register of Burials, by the Rector.