Emily Emery

1866 - 1883  (17 years)

• Name	Emily Emery
  Birth	1866	Gurney Slade, Somerset, England, UK
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	13 Aug 1866	Binegar, Somerset, England, UK
  	Address: Holy Trinity Church, Binegar, Somerset, England, UK
  Death	20 Nov 1883	Binegar, Somerset, England, UK
  	A shocking accident occurred on the Somerset and Dorset Railway, just below Binegar Station, on the evening of Tuesday November 20, 1883. A young girl of seventeen named Emily Emery, the daughter of William Emery, labourer, residing at Gurney Slade, and who lives in service with Mr. Orledge, of Waterside, near Radstock, had been on a visit to her parents during the evening and returned towards the station accompanied by two other girls. When near the station they noticed that the train, which due to leave Binegar at 7.55, was in, and Emily hurried across the line by the level crossing. It seems that the passenger train at this point crossed a down goods train, and she did not notice the train approaching in her anxiety lest she should be too late to catch the other, stepped on to the line just as the down train passed through the station. Before any alarm could have been given, even if she had been seen, the train was upon and knocked her down. But it seems that no one noticed her presence on the line, and it was not till the up train had passed soon after nine o'clock that her body was found by the station master, Mr. N. Meek, who was proceeding a little way down the line to see if the tail lights of the train were all right. Falling over something in the dark, a point about 100 yards from the station, he made an examination, and found it was the dead body of the poor girl lying on other side of the rail, and cut completely in two by the train which had passed over the lower part of the body. Death must have been instantaneous. Her remains were carefully conveyed to the Inn, not far from the station, to await an inquest. Her hat was picked up about dozen yards nearer the station.
  Burial	25 Nov 1883	Binegar, Somerset, England, UK
  	Address: Holy Trinity Church, Binegar, Somerset, England, UK
  Person ID	I95031	Lasbury Family
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	William Emery           b. 1835, Binegar, Somerset, England, UK           d. 1917, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, UK (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Adelaide James           b. 1837, Chilcompton, Somerset, England, UK
  Marriage	18 Sep 1859	Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
  	Address: St. John the Baptist Church, Bedminster, Bristol, Gloucestershir
  Marriage Witness	18 Sep 1859
  	Seth Emery & Mary Ann Lansdown
  Family ID	F39531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 1866 - Gurney Slade, Somerset, England, UK Baptism - Address: Holy Trinity Church, Binegar, Somerset, England, UK - 13 Aug 1866 - Binegar, Somerset, England, UK Death - 20 Nov 1883 - Binegar, Somerset, England, UK Burial - Address: Holy Trinity Church, Binegar, Somerset, England, UK - 25 Nov 1883 - Binegar, Somerset, England, UK  = Link to Google Earth