![]() ![]() ![]() Edward himself was apprenticed to his father and qualified through practice at Leeds Royal Infirmary in 1846. Such was Dr Snow’s reputation that it was he who administered chloroform to Queen Victoria during the delivery of two of her children. By 1834 he had attracted a young John Snow to act as his assistant, the same Dr John Snow who is considered to be the founding father of both modern epidemiology and the scientific use of anaesthesia. Headington (later a president of the Royal College of Physicians) qualifying as a surgeon-apothecary in 1816 before returning to Pateley Bridge. ![]() Joseph headed off to London where he studied under the esteemed Mr R. In 1815 the law changed requiring new doctors to be licenced and whilst in earlier years Joseph’s apprenticeship and family connections would have been sufficient, he was now required to qualify. Edward Warburton’s father, Joseph, had first arrived in Pateley Bridge in 1807 to act as an assistant to Dr Strother. Thomas was fortunate to have such a qualified doctor within calling distance. Whilst it is possible that numbness would have overtaken the pain, the foul smell of infected gangrene could not have been ignored and at some point, Thomas would have called on the services of the local doctor and Medical Officer of Health for Pateley Bridge, Edward Warburton MCRS, LSA. Gradually over the following couple of months, Thomas would have seen the tissue in his right arm blacken and die. The dislocation must have resulted in disruption of the blood flow to his right arm. Whatever the cause it would have been painful and debilitating, the sole positive being that of his family: adult children to run the farm and a wife to provide nursing care. A common enough occurrence, the initial accident didn’t leave a written record. ![]() Perhaps he had a run-in with a cow or fell from a roof he was fixing, maybe he twisted his arm trying to manoeuvre a too-heavy stack of straw or simply got caught under an overturned wagon. It was mid-October 1878 when Thomas dislocated his right shoulder. Stepping back a hundred years or agricultural accidents were much, much more common and medical assistance much, much less effective. Yet friends were still beset by agricultural injury (including one who lost fingers) and I particularly remember the vividly coloured bruises Grandpy received from a tussle with an unruly sheep. At primary school we watched horrifying educational videos of children crushed by machinery or drowning in slurry. Warburton MRCS&LSA.Īgriculture still has the worst rate of worker fatal injury (per 100,000) of all the main industry sectors, with the annual average rate over the last five years around twenty times as high as the all-industry rate. Cause of death: dislocation of right shoulder 23 weeks, amputation of shoulder 14 weeks. I took the opportunity to add the rest of my shopping basket to the order and Thomas’s death certificate was on its way.Īnd right there, under cause of death, was Thomas’s story. It was back to the general registry office website. Might I be able to help her source a replacement? (There are, it seems, practical benefits to having a family history geek as a sister). A pupil at her school had accidentally ripped the birth certificate belonging to a colleague’s son. What else was there left for me to learn? Nonetheless, I added his death certificate to my general registry office shopping basket before moving on to other, more interesting ancestors.Ī month later my sister called. Thomas’s gravestone in the Providence United Reformed Churchyard at Dacre had given me his date of death. Six healthy children arrived at regular intervals and the family continued to farm at Woodmanwray until Thomas died, aged fifty-eight, on 29 March 1879. He married a local girl, Jane Teal, on 29 November 1845. Born on 21 December 1820, the youngest of eleven children and the third surviving son, Thomas had been fortunate to secure his own tenancy of a twenty-acre farm within walking distance from where he was born. Thomas Bradbury was a very typical and quite unremarkable example of my Victorian farmer ancestors. The gravestone of Thomas Bradbury showing alll the genealogical data and none of the story. Warning: this is a rather sad unpleasant story. ![]()
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