Jane Mary Ann Hancock, daughter of James Joseph Hancock, potter, died at 77 Princes Road, Lambeth on November 2, 1847, aged 3 weeks. The cause of death was certified as inflammation of the chest.
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To Mark Ratford, labourer, and Sarah Jays, on April 25, 1843 at 7 Southampton Street West, Nine Elms, a daughter, Isabella Hannah.
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Henry Barraclough, farrier, died at 14 Upper Ogle Street on December 14, 1845, aged 39 years. The cause of death was recorded as inflammation of the bowels, 4 days.
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To Henry Barraclough, farrier, and Sarah Emma Barraclough (née Coles), on October 18, 1843 at 13 Upper Ogle Street, a son, Adolphus Barraclough.
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Henry Barraclough, bachelor, farrier, and Sarah Emma Coles, spinster, both of full age, were married at the parish church in the Parish of St Botolph Without Bishopsgate, London on June 25, 1843. The marriage was witnessed by John Clark and Jane Witt (1).
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In 1813, my 4 × great grandfather Joseph Coles was apprenticed to George Adcock of Holywell Street, a tinsmith. A copy of Joseph’s indenture was written into the minute book of the Somersetshire Society following the minutes of the committee meeting held at the Turk’s Head, Strand on Tuesday, 21 September 1813 (Somersetshire Society, 1813, September 21).
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George Hancock, bachelor, laborer, and Eliza Darby, spinster, both of full age, were married at St Peter’s Church, Wellington, New Zealand on June 30, 1875 by Arthur Stock, the officiating minister. The marriage was witnessed by George William Hancock, engineer, and Elizabeth Hancock, both of Wellington (1).

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1. New Zealand, marriage register entry for George Hancock and Eliza Darby, married 30 June 1875; citing 1875/662; Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

From the pages of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser (1). comes a report of the coroner’s inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Louisa Hewett. Louisa was the second daughter of Samuel Hewett and Harriet Curtis and granddaughter to James Hewett, brother to my 3 × great grandfather Hugh Hewett.
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I have finally managed to find some time to transcribe some of the documents I photographed on my recent visit to the Somerset Record Office in Taunton. The first is a report into the conduct of my 4 × great grandfather Joseph Coles as an apprentice to the tinsmith George Adcock. The report was provided to the Committee of the Somersetshire Society in London by John Moore—a copy of which was written into the minutes of the committee meeting held at Albion House on Monday, 15 March 1819 (Somersetshire Society, 1819, March 15).
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Joseph Coles got married between his hospitalisation in 1817 and the presentation to the Somersetshire Society of a report into his conduct as an apprentice in March 1819 (Somersetshire Society, 1819, March 15) that said:

… subsequent to the time when he was in the hospital for the cure of the Venereal disease he had been in the habit of staying out all hours of the night sometimes all night and frequently whole days – that he had formed a connection with and had ultimately married their discharged Servant maid …

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