Une blessure mortelle au dos

Les registres de l'Anglican Holy Trinity Church de Québec pour le 25 octobre 1824 font état de l'acte de sépulture suivant : 

«Robinson Buried 

Henry Robinson "who on the twenty four day of October died in the Emigrants Hospital in the Suburgbs of Quebec, in consequence of a Mortal Injury to the dorsal Spine, received on the tenth of September last, in attempting to break into the dwelling House of the Hon^ble William Smith, in St Louis Street, in the city of Quebec" Coroner's Warrant and was buried on the twenty fifth of October, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & twenty four.

B y me    E. H.   ?     deacon

Present : James Sipsey unable to write

               John Rickaby sexton». 

Le rapport du coroner est souvent davantage précis qu'un acte de sépulture sur les causes d'un décès.

 

[Summary :
The church record for the burying of a man in Québec, Québec.]