12 September 1731: Edward Garner of Dodworth dies, perhaps the victim of his runaway horse
John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:
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Old Edward Garner found dead in bed this morning. He was very well the night before. He had a rupture, and led an intemperate life for many years. On Wednesday last he was at Wakefield races, lodged at _______, where his horse got out of the pasture and came home, so he was obliged to walk a-foot to Mapplewell, where he lay all night, and came a-foot home next day; which fatigue might perhaps hasten his death. He was buried in his former wife’s grave.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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The distances are not tremendous, but I don’t know how old and infirm he was.
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Old Edward Garner found dead in bed this morning. He was very well the night before. He had a rupture, and led an intemperate life for many years. On Wednesday last he was at Wakefield races, lodged at _______, where his horse got out of the pasture and came home, so he was obliged to walk a-foot to Mapplewell, where he lay all night, and came a-foot home next day; which fatigue might perhaps hasten his death. He was buried in his former wife’s grave.
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- 📌Dodworth (17)
· - Hernia (3) ·
- Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
- Horse racing (9) ·
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- 📌Wakefield (36), cathedral city on the River Calder in the West Riding/West Yorkshire ·
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