Joseph THORNE

  General Notes:

Birth on new GRO indexes
THORNE, JOSEPH mother EVANS
GRO Reference: 1855 S Quarter in BARNSTAPLE UNION Volume 05B Page 427

Relooking at Fremington baptisms, confirmed this!
Baptism on 29 Dec 1858 at Fremington, Devon (page 70, entries 555-557)
George son of, John and Mary, Thorn, Bickington, Laborer
Emma dr of, John and Mary, Thorn, Bickington, Laborer
Joseph son of, John & Mary, Thorn, Bickington, Laborer

No death or burial found under the name Thorne, but

Death on GRO indexes
EVANS, JOSEPH age 4
GRO Reference: 1859 M Quarter in BARNSTAPLE UNION Volume 05B Page 384

Death entry
Entry 189 in Bishops Tawton sub district of Barnstaple
Died on eleventh February 1859 at Fremington
Joseph Evans, Male, 4 years, Male bastard child born of the body of Mary Evans now the wife of John Thorne.
Cause of death was Accidentally burnt languished 27 hours.
The death was registered : "information received from Richard Bremridge Coroner for Devon Inquest held on 12th February 1859" on twelfth February 1859.

Burial at Fremington, 1859, page 12, entry 91
Joseph Evans, Bickington, 16th February, 3

North Devon Journal 17 February 1859, page 4
Death by Burning
An inquest was held on Saturday last, at Bickington, near this town, by Richard Bremridge esq, County Coroner, on the body of Joseph Evans, a child of about four years of age, son of Mary Evans, of that village, there lying dead.
The deceased, on the Thursday afternoon previous, had, in the absence of his mother, caught his dress on fire; a neighbour named Harriet Sanders immediately extinguished the flames, and medical aid was in instant requisition, but the little sufferer never rallied, the injuries he received by burns in the neck and shoulders proving fatal on the following Sunday evening. - Verdict - "Accidental Death."
- on the 1861 census, there is a Harriett Saunders age 55 in Bickington. No specific address