Shirley Village Archive

Derby Mercury - 3 August 1836

INQUESTS BEFORE MR. WHISTON, JUN. CORONER. On Tuesday the 26th ult., at Shirley, in this county, on the body of Frances Gadsby, aged four years, who on the Sunday previous fell into a pot of boiling whey, which had been very imprudently placed on the floor of the dwelling-house of the child's parents, by its mother. The child lingered till the following morning.

The jury in both cases returned a verdict of "Accidental death".