Blackhurst the News – Sheffield General Infirmary, March 5 [1847]

Montran-Barber-Blackhurst Line

“In the News” is my reporting of newspapers articles and obituaries regarding ancestors and other relatives I am researching. The information found in newspapers often raises more questions and more research areas but invariably provides fresh texture to understanding an ancestor’s life.

Today’s article reports an event in the life of my 4^th Great-grandfather, Stephen Blackhurst.

Article

This week’s article from the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) newspaper[i] dated 6 Mar 1847. It reports events at the Sheffield General Infirmary during the previous week.

Sheffield and Rotherham Independent  newspaper dated 6 Mar 1847, via Newspapers.com

SHEFFIELD GENERAL INFIRMARY, March 5

In-Patients….
Out-Patients….
Casualties received into the House since last Friday….
…Stephen Blackhurst, Bridge; houses, shoemaker, fractured leg; George Milnes….

Discovered

I learned that Stephen Blackhurst lived at Bridge. (I need to know more about what that means.)

I also learned he fractured his leg between 27 February and 5 March and was admitted to the Sheffield Infirmary. That is significant as I know from other things that Stephen died on 8 March at the Sheffield Infirmary.[ii]

Endnotes

[i] Thanks to Newspapers.com.

[ii] England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007, Family Search, Stephen Blackhurst – 1847. “England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JMT-SSC : 31 December 2014), Stephen Blackhurst, 1847; from “England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006,” database, findmypast (https://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.