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hi i wonder if anyone could help or point me in the right direction. i have a death cert for a relative who died 16/1/1922 he was 48 years old and died of natural causes /pneumonia. it states certificate received from john w barlow deputy coroner for lancashire inquest held 19/1/1922. would there be anywhere where i could find out more about the inquest ?
many thanks linda

You could contact the local records office and see if they hold them, but often they were not kept. The inquest was usually reported in the local papers though.
The central library for the town will hold microcopies of the papers. As you know the date of the inquest, you can ask for a search to be done if you can't get there yourself. They will then supply a copy of the report.
i had a search done the charge was £7 for 15 minutes, but as I knew the inquest date, that was all it took

Linda

Linda

This probably means that the individual hadn't been under medical supervision in the last week or so and died unexpectedly i.e didn't have a known medical condition. Its normal practice for a PM and inquest in these circumstances - obviously carried out by the coroner's office.

Unfortunately there'll be little hope of finding surviving documentation - but you could try.

Your first port of call should be the coroners’ office local to where the inquest took place. In my experience they only keep 6 years worth of records, from the time of the inquest, and then will only release details to interested parties – which usually means police, lawyers etc. You can write asking for details, once you’ve established they have the relevant files, but will have to give chapter and verse why you want it and your connection.

Anything longer than 6 years is closed for 75 years and only a very small number of details are kept so it’s real pot luck – there is no central repository like with Wills or Divorces.

If the inquest was of national or local interest you could try looking at the local papers around the relevant time.
Good luck

My sister tells me that pneumonia is common cause of death in elderly or ashmatics as they are less likely to be moving around - active people don't get it as their lungs can expel the mucus.

thanks everyone i will contact the local newspapers and see if anything was reported. the man in question was 48 when he died and his son had died 11 days earlier at the age of 22 years of again pneumonia was ther an epidemic going around lancashire in 1922?
thanks linda

Carter, Funnily enough I`m after the same information as you. I received my great great grandmothers death certificate last week, and discovered she hung herself, this was in 1861 in Manchester, and an inquest was held.

Just today I have emailed the Manchester Archives asking for any info on inquest or Newspaper reports, giving them all the dates,
address etc. I received an automated reply stating all mails are dealt with in order received and I should hear back within 10 working days, why don`t you give them a try?

Nicky

Try local papers in your family records centre. I found a report of the suicide of a family member in 1906 in the local newspaper.

Margaret

UPDATE

Have received today an email from Manchester Archives stating there are no free searches but they will search for £18.00 an hour, newspaper archives are included in this, but obviously there are no garuntees they will find anything.

Nicky

thanks everyone i am due to go to see relatives soon in the town where this happned so i will be able to make a trip to the library and see what the local newspapers of that time might have to offer
thanks agian
linda

ps i found out that there was a flu epidemic in 1922 and on 13th january up to 803 people had died from flu related illnesses. so william and his son thomas both were victims of this epidemic. such a shame as thomas was only 22 and left a new bride and a six week old baby
thanks linda