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Coroner's Reports
of Newfoundlanders
1826 - 1878

The following is a compilation of Coroner's Reports, which were listed in the Supreme Court records, and then printed in various newspapers. 1826 - 1878

Coroner's Inquests (1826 - 1878)
Newspaper	Individual	Residence	Cause of Death	Family	Other
1826
Mercantile Journal - 15 March 1826	Johanna Power	St. John's	intoxicated
Mercantile Journal - 15 March 1826	Crocker boy	Maggotty Cove	crushed by a slide of wood
Mercantile Journal - 15 March 1826	Corporal Robert Sharp	St. John's	fell through the ice and was drowned	wife and four children	aged 45 years
Mercantile Journal - 6 July 1826	John Mabey	Trouty	cut his throat	wife and nine children	aged 40 years
Mercantile Journal – 14 December 1826	J. Smith	St. John's	hung himself in the woods
1828
Royal Gazette - 12 February 1828	Samuel Skelton	St. John's	fell through the ice
Newfoundlander - 27 February 1828	Thomas Power		crushed by the upsetting of his slide of wood	wife and four children
Royal Gazette - 5 August 1828	George D. Ryan	St. John's	fell off wharf
Royal Gazette - 19 August 1828	Thomas Byrne	St. John's	killed by stones
1829
Harbour Grace and Carbonear Weekly Journal - 26 February 1829	Joseph Knox	Harbour Grace	died of malnutrition		aged 16 months
Newfoundlander - 11 June 1829	Edward Callanan	St. John's	fell boarding vessel
Royal Gazette - 23 June 1829	Robert Grace	St. John's	drowned himself in Barnes River
Royal Gazette - 6 October 1829	Michael Kavanagh	St. John's	drowned himself in Quidi Vidi Pond
Royal Gazette - 6 October 1829	John Hall	St. John's	visitation of God		aged 30 years
1830
Royal Gazette - 26 January 1830	John Gladney	St. John's	fell through the ice on Windsor Lake
Royal Gazette - 5 October 1830	Patrick Power	Torbay	murdered
Royal Gazette - 16 November 1830	Nicholas Coleman	St. John's	drowned
1831
Newfoundlander - 18 August 1831	Nicholas Kennedy	Harbour Grace	fell off stage in Labrador	nephew of Thomas Foley
1832
Supreme Court - 22 December 1832	Timothy O'Rourke	Holyrood	killed by John Hennessey	brother Michael Rourke
1833
Patriot - 15 July 1833	Robert Crocker Bray	Harbour Grace	murdered with his infant son Samuel, and servant Ellen Coombs, aged 25 years	wife Sarah	aged 58 years, school master
Newfoundlander - 12 September 1833	John Snow	Port de Grave	murdered on his stage head	wife Catherine and 7 children	planter
1834
Patriot - 16 September 1834	William Bearns	St. John's	murdered and body thrown in Quidi Vidi lake		aged 39 years shoe maker
Star - 12 November 1834	George Pynn		washed overboard	wife and for children
1835
Patriot - 25 August 1835	newborn Whelan	Job's Cove	murdered	mother Mary Whelan
Patriot - 29 September 1835	William O'Reagan	St. John's	killed while rescuing a child from a fire
1836
Patriot - 17 September 1836	William Sheilds	Cape Spear	exploding gun	wife and two children	a native of Edinburgh
1837
Royal Gazette - 10 January 1837	Martin or Michael Cormick	St. John's	drowned
Royal Gazette - 0 January 1837	Jeffrey Keating	St. John's	visitation of God	wife Mary and child
Royal Gazette - 3 October 1837	William Picker	St. John's	drowned	wife Susanna	storekeeper, aged 44 years
1838
Royal Gazette – 28 August 1838	Thomas O'Connor		drowned inebriated
Star – 5 September 1838	Edward Dalton	St. John's	teething		aged 12 months
1839
Newfoundlander – 16 May 1839	Charles Newhook	Trinity	fell on deck of vessel		shipbuilder
Carbonear Sentinel - 21 May 1839	Thomas Oates	St. John's	murdered by James Devereaux and John Murphy		fisherman
Carbonear Sentinel - 21 May 1839	Margaret Walsh, widow	St. John's	murdered by Mr. Byrne while milking her goat
Star – 23 October 1839	Dennis Callaghan	Carbonear	killed by Thomas Nowlan
Newfoundlander - 5 December 1839	Ann Purcell	Portugal Cove	visitation of God	wife of John Purcell
1840
Royal Gazette – 21 January 1840	John Chapman	St. John's	struck in the head by a gun	wife and seven children
Supreme Court - 25 July 1840	Richard Rogers	sailor on the vessel Jane Elizabeth	fell into the water of St. John’s harbour	a native of Modbury, Devon	aged 26 years
Star – 19 August 1840	William Penny	Carbonear	tossed overboard	son of Clement Penny	aged 24 years
Carbonear Sentinel - 22 October 1840	John Hogan	Southside, Carbonear	drowned	father Daniel Hogan
Supreme Court - 2 December 1840	Michael Hickey	Duckworth Street	visitation of God
1841
Newfoundlaner – 11 March 1841	Jeffrey Lennard	St. John's	accidental lighting of clothes		aged 3 years
Newfoundlander – 6 May 1841	John/James Norman	Brigus	gun exploded		aged 75 years
Royal Gazette – 13 July 1841	Thomas Saxby	St. John's	apoplexy		superintendent, Newfoundland Society schools, aged 36 years
1842
Royal Gazette – 25 January 1842	infant Sears	barracks, Signal Hill	suffocated by smoke	father Robert Sears, RA
Royal Gazette – 25 January 1842	James Dulhanty	St. John's	attack of coughing
Royal Gazette – 19 April 1842	John Gadis	St. John's ?	lost in a snowstorm on the way to Grates Cove
1843
Royal Gazette – 25 April 1843	Margaret Walsh	Twenty Mile Pond, St. John's	exhaustion and old age	wife of Martin
Carbonear Sentinel - 9 November 1843	Alexander Lang	Carbonear?	drowned at Labrador, 4th September
Carbonear Sentinel - 9 November 1843	Henry Thistle	Carbonear?	died at Labrador, 4th October
1844
Royal Gazette – 6 February 1844	Dr. William Hanrahan	Carbonear	died of exposure on 27 January 1844	wife and several children	a native of New Ross, Wexford, Ireland, aged 52 years
Royal Gazette – 13 February 1844	Michael Brine	Riverhead, St. John's	crushed by his slide of wood		aged 16 years
Royal Gazette – 19 March 1844	James Fleming	St. John's	clothing caught fire		aged 2 years
Royal Gazette – 19 March 1844	Scanlan boy	St. John's	drowned at Riverhead	widowed mother
Royal Gazette – 16 April 1844	James Binkley	behind Fort William St. John's	clothing caught fire	David Binkley	aged 18 months
Royal Gazette – 12 November 1844	John Boyle	St. John's	drowned near Gill's wharf
Star – 5 December 1844	John Hayes	Brigus	drowned		aged 40 years
1845
Royal Gazette – 21 January 1845	John, Mansell, James, and Samuel Mercer	Bay Roberts	died of exposure in a boat near Broad Cove Point
Royal Gazette – 11 February 1845	Mary Fitzgerald	St. John's	natural causes
Patriot – 19 March 1845	Tabitha Rogers	Burnt Point	fell in well	resided with her elderly grandparents	aged 11 years
Patriot – 19 March 1845	Mary Hogan	St. John's	crushed by a slide load of longers		aged 13 years
Royal Gazette – 6 May 1845	George Burge	St. John's	drowned	a native of Bridport	aged 23 years
Royal Gazette – 5 August 1845	Richard Walsh	Quidi Vidi	drowned	wife and seven children	fisherman
Herald – 14 May 1845	Thomas Greeley	Island Cove	died at sea		aged 21 years
Newfoundlander – 22 September 1845	John Hartery	St. John's	fell from the jib boom		aged 22 years
Herald – 18 June 1845	William Bussey	Lower Island Cove	fell from Baccalieu cliff	wife and two children
Herald – 3 September 1845	Hannah Noseworthy	Harbour Grace	visitation by God	wife of Alfred Noseworthy	aged 28 years
Royal Gazette – 11 November 1845	Robert A. Bellows	Greenspond	apoplexy	wife and eight children	aged 42 years
Courier – 10 January 1846	Richard Dalton	Portugal Cove Road	epileptic fit	servant of Thomas Cook	aged 26 years
1846
Newfoundlander – 19 February 1846	John Mitchell	St. John's	apoplexy
Newfoundlander – 9 March 1846	James Day	St. John's	fell through the ice		aged 20 years
Herald – 25 March 1846	William McLean	Spaniards Bay	fell through the ice		aged 21 years
Courier – 1 April 1846	John McLoughlin	St. John's	collapsed at Riverhead, St. Mary's	wife Ellen	trader
Herald – 29 April 1846	William Pilgrim	Carbonear	accidentally shot
Mercury - 19 May 1846	French child	Southside, Carbonear	drowned in well		aged 3 years
Mercury - 16 June 1846	the son of John Pike	Carbonear ?	drowned in well		aged 2 years
Newfoundlander – 30 July 1846	Henry Winsor	Quidi Vidi	drowned in a squall
Herald – 19 August 1846	David Ryan	Harbour Grace	heart disease		a native of Ireland
Herald – 19 August 1846	Mary Jane Reed	Carbonear	clothes caught on fire	child of James & Mary Reed	aged 5 years
Courier – 23 September 1846	Catherine and John Duggan	St. John's	killed by the collapse of the Native's Hall
Courier – 23 September 1846	Patrick Kelly	Petty Harbour	collapse of stage during the gale
Mercury - 15 October 1846	George Mills	Carbonear	drowned at Labrador	son of Samuel Mills	aged 20 years
Courier – 31 October 1846	Michael Morrissy	St. John's	murdered by Timothy Ryan	sisters Winifred and Margaret; brother Thomas	a native of Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland
Newfoundlander – 2 November 1846	John Murphy	Placentia	fire on vessel
1847
Herald – 10 February 1847	Denis Connell	Harbour Grace	crushed by a slide load of wood	son-in-law	a native of Co. Kerry, Ireland, aged 76 years
Herald – 10 February 1847	Timothy Ryan	Harbour Grace	liver disease		died in the gaol in St. John's
Herald – 21 April 1847	John Noel	Hr. Rock Hill, Carbonear	schooner hit an ice pan	wife and five children	aged 49 years
Courier – 21 April 1847	James Keefe's son	near King's Bridge Road, St. John's	accidental burns		aged 5 years
1848
Herald – 7 June 1848	Anastasia Brewer	Riverhead, St. John's	drank a glass of rum		aged 3 years
Herald – 7 June 1848	Michael Fitzgerald	St. John's	excessive drink
Courier – 24 June 1848	Catherine Kelly	St. John's	exhaustion and old age	husband and daughter
Courier – 1 July 1848	Thomas Cook	near Fort Townsend, St. John's	old age		farmer
Courier – 1 July 1848	Michael Reardon	near Meeting House Hill, St. John's	disease of the heart		cooper
Courier – 22 July 1848	George Baird	near King's Bridge Road, St. John's	obstruction of the bowels
Courier – 22 July 1848	Kenneth John McLea	Water Street, St. John's	drowned while in pleasure boat	son of Kenneth McLea, Esq., of Greenock, and Elizabeth Brine	aged 18 years
Herald – 23 August 1848	Robert Jackman	Kings Cove ?	fell off wharf		aged 70 years a native of Co. Carlow
Courier – 7 September 1848	Thomas Broderick	the marsh, St. John's	crushed while building of the Colonial Building
Herald – 1 November 1848	Martin Power Jr.	Harbour Grace	drowned
Herald – 15 November 1848	Michael Murphy	St. John's	visitation by God		shipped to Carbonear
Herald – 27 December 1848	William Martin	Harbour Grace	clothing caught fire	son of Stephen & Mary Martin	aged 2 years
1849
Supreme Court – 13 January 1849	Thomas Cadwell	Portugal Cove	visitation of God
Supreme Court – 20 January 1849	Thomas Stevens	St. John's	died of exposure
Supreme Court – 5 February 1849	Michael Shallow	St. John's	visitation of God		aged 52 years
Herald – 21 February 1849	Charles Keefe	Harbour Grace	crushed by a slide of wood	brother John Keefe
Supreme Court – 12 February 1849	Jemima Vey	Meeting House Hill	asthma	wife of Samuel Vey	aged 27 years
Supreme Court – 18 February 1849	Honora Connick	Sudbury, Riverhead	heart disease
Supreme Court – 19 February 1849	Patrick Kennedy	Freshwater, St. John's	died of exposure
Supreme Court – 13 March 1849	William Brett	Carter's Hill	drowned from Brig Kingaloch		aged 28 years
Supreme Court – 26 March 1849	Ambrose Fitzgerald	Portugal Cove	accidental lighting of clothes on fire		aged 3 years
Supreme Court – 3 April 1849	Margaret Firth	Cochrane Street	apoplexy		aged 28 or32 years
Supreme Court – 5 April 1849	Michael Flinn	above Newmans	cut his throat
Supreme Court – 7 May 1849	Patrick Bolan	Brazils, Riverhead	drank hot water from tea kettle		aged 8 years
Herald – 16 May 1849	Thomas Egginton	Harbour Grace	murdered	daughter and son
Supreme Court – 2 July 1849	William Redmond	Marsh Hill	visitation of God		seaman
Supreme Court – 3 July 1849	Barnaby Simmons		drowned		seaman on Brig Queen
Supreme Court – 8 July 1849	George Allen	Topsail	fell off stage head
Supreme Court – 18 July 1849	Josι Fernandez		carbonic acid smoke		cook on Brig Delageneia
Herald – 1 August 1849	Solomon Butt	Freshwater	visitation by God	wife and six children	aged 52 years planter
Courier – 8 August 1849	Patrick Ryan Junior	Logy Bay	strangulated hernia
Supreme Court – 17 October 1849	John Shea	Logy Bay	died of exposure		old man, pauper
Supreme Court – 1 November 1849	William Doran	behind Job's cottage	visitation of God
Supreme Court – 18 November 1849	Patrick Scanlan	Marsh Meadow	drowned
Supreme Court – 24 November 1849	William Shackle		fell from topsail of Brig Cynthia		aged 18 years
Courier – 12 December 1849	Edward Bray	Carter's Hill, St. John's	cut his throat at J. Foley's house	wife	publican
Supreme Court – 15 December 1849	John Tucker	Broad Cove	visitation of God	mother	a boy
1850
Supreme Court – 7 February 1850	John Rowsell		scalded to death		young boy
Supreme Court – 19 February 1850	Philip Brien	Court House Lane	apoplexy		old man
Supreme Court – 25 February 1850	Mary Fahey	Carters Hill	visitation of God
Supreme Court – 5 March 1850	Peter McLean	Fort Townsend	apoplexy		private, RN
Supreme Court – 6 March 1850	Abraham Harvey	Portugal Cove	overlain in bed by his mother
Supreme Court – 15 March 1850	Ellen Fitzpatrick	Goulds	dropped dead hauling water
Supreme Court – 19 March 1850	Mary Power	Carters Hill	visitation of God
Supreme Court – 4 April 1850	Patrick Casey	Kings Road	cut his throat
Herald – 16 January 1850	James Broders	Hearts Content	died of exhaustion and exposure
Herald – 16 January 1850	Thomas Foley	Harbour Grace	visitation by God
Herald – 6 March 1850	Michael Dohig	Riverhead, Harbor Grace	crushed by a load of logs
Herald – 15 May 1850	John Mullowney	Port de Grave ?	died at the ice in March
Courier – 12 June 1850	male child	Harbour Grace	murdered	mother Miriam Tryphena Churchill
Courier – 13 November 1850	William Dalton	Mother Rix	drowned at St. Mary’s Harbour	brother John Dalton	fisherman
Courier – 13 November 1850	George Davis	Little Salmonier	drowned at St. Mary’s Harbour		planter
Courier – 27 November 1850	Philip Power	St. John's	drowned off brigantine Rolla
Courier – 27 November 1850	baby Lambert	St. John's	murdered	mother Catherine Lambert
1851
Courier – 11 January 1851	William Purcell	St. John's	visitation by God		aged 14 months
Courier – 11 January 1851	Patrick Hayes	St. John's	accidental lighting of clothes on fire		aged 4 years
Courier – 11 January 1851	Michael Doyle	St. John's	fell off his slide
Courier – 22 January 1851	James Ivaney	St. John's	accidental lighting of clothes		aged 5 years
Courier – 22 January 1851	John Furlong	Riverhead, St. John's	rupture of vessel in lungs	wife Bridget and children	farmer
Courier – 12 February 1851	John Quick and wife Elizabeth Chafe	Quidi Vidi	died of exposure and old age		both aged 72 years
Courier – 26 March 1851	Catherine Marshall	St. John's	visitation of God
Courier – 30 April 1851	James Ryan	Georgetown	suicide due to poverty and illness
Herald – 28 May 1851	Simon Curlew	Brigus ?	found drowned		aged 30 years
Courier – 31 May 1851	James Chidley	St. John's	drunk and died of exposure by the government shed		aged 50 years
Courier – 21 June 1851	Mary Kelly	St. John's	accidental lighting of clothes
Herald – 20 August 1851	Stephen Bryan		burnt in a house fire	wife and four children
Courier – 10 September 1851	Joseph Ryan	Upper Long Pond	visitation by God
Courier – 10 September 1851	John Squires	Bell Island	found drowned
Courier – 6 December 1851	Patrick Kennedy	St. John's	found drowned
1852
Courier – 10 January 1852	Ellen Russell	St. John's	accidental lighting of clothes		aged 7 years, buried at Belvedere
Courier – 18 February 1852	Ann Mallard	Quidi Vidi	old age	son-in-law Matthew Morrissey	buried 14 February 1852 at Belvedere Cemetery, aged 71 years
Courier – 6 March 1852	Margaret Moriarity	St. John's	accidentally burnt		buried 4 March 1852 at Belvedere Cemetery, aged 16 years
Herald – 17 March 1852	Charles Sweetland	Bears Cove	accidental drowning	son of Charles Sweetland	aged 16 years
Herald – 21 April 1852	Charles Pynn	Harbour Grace	visitation by God
Courier – 5 May 1852	George Strong of Perlican	Old Perlican	visitation by God	fisherman	buried at Old Perlican, aged 32 years
Courier – 5 May 1852	Robert Andrews	Harbour Grace	shipwright, fell through hole	wife and large family	buried at Harbour Grace, aged 61 years
Courier – 5 May 1852	James Sawyer Bowden	St. John's	accidently shot while birding		aged 16 years, a native of Totnes, Devon
Courier – 12 May 1852	Thomas Angel	St. John's	drowned in harbour	son of Edward Angel and Ann Bidgood of Petty Harbour	aged 55 years
Courier – 12 May 1852	Michael Carroll		injuries from shipwreck	sealer
Courier – 12 May 1852	William Bartlett	Brigus	accidental blow to head	sealer
Herald – 12 May 1852	Alexander Ryan	Scilly Cove	fell from rigging
Courier – 26 June 1852	John Kenny	St. Mary's ?	fell out of boat and drowned
Herald – 14 July 1852	James Bradbury Sr.	Otterbury	crushed by stone on Kelly's Island	widow, son, and four daughters; Capt. John Stevenson, son-in-law
Patriot – 30 August 1852	William Kenny	St. John's	drowned at Quidi Vidi Lake	survived by his wife Johanna and three children	cooper
Courier – 18 September 1852	John Gorman	Logy Bay	epilepsy
Courier – 22 September 1852	Richard Jenkins	St. John's	fell off Bennett's wharf		aged 11 years
Patriot – 27 December 1852	Bernard Jaynes	Foxtrap	died of exposure in St. John's
1853
Courier – 26 January 1853	William Teehan at Blackhead Bay	Blackhead Bay	died of exposure walking to Blackhead	large family	William FEEHAN buried 22 January 1853, aged 65 years, at Belvedere Cemetery
Courier – 16 February 1853	William and Ralph Mills	Petty Harbour	drowned at First Pond	sons of Thomas Tremills and Mary Hext	aged 18 years and 20 years
Courier – 27 April 1853	Catherine Okey	St. John's	visitation	brother
Courier – 4 May 1853	William Hammond	Bell Island	gun burst in his hand
Courier – 4 May 1853	Patrick Nagle	St. John's	fell off wharf and drowned		buried 2 May 1853, aged 53 years, at Belvedere Cemetery
Courier – 4 May 1853	Patrick Bray	St. John's	struck by gate	labourer with the Board of Ordanance	buried 30 April 1853, aged 61 years, at Belvedere Cemetery
Courier – 25 May 1853	James Hayden	Monkstown, St. John's	poisoned by essence of bitter almonds	parents	aged 9 years
Courier – 3 August 1853	Richard Pierce	St. John's	ladder broke while painting		formerly of Brigus, aged 60 years
Courier – 1 October 1853	Robert Noseworthy	St. John's	shot by his brother William		aged 5 years
Courier – 12 October 1853	Jane Mullins	St. John's	accidental lighting of clothes	natural child of Bridget Mullins and Dr. Spurgeon Spence	aged 3 months
Courier – 26 November 1853	John Woodford	Harbour Main	injuries from fire	survived by his wife Mary; three children; brother William Woodford
Courier – 7 December 1853	Bridget Boag	St. John's	apoplexy
Courier – 14 December 1853	Patrick Mehigan	St. John's	murdered
1854
Courier – 1 February 1854	Michael Darey	Waterford Bridge	crushed by a slide of wood	wife and nine children
Courier – 8 February 1854	Samuel Kingwell	St. John's	drowned		cabinetmaker
Courier – 5 April 1854	William Layman	St. John's	apoplexy		aged 68 years
Courier – 5 April 1854	Elizabeth Cadwell	St. John's	accidental lighting of clothes	widow	aged 75 years
1855
Patriot – 14 May 1855	Elizabeth Skelton	Bay Roberts	accidently shot by her brother John	daughter of Joseph Skelton, blacksmith	aged 2 years
Patriot – 14 May 1855	Joseph Butt	Freshwater	visitation by God	wife	aged 55 years
Patriot – 14 May 1855	John Dunn	Cupids	died of filth and vermin		aged 56 years
Patriot – 8 October 1855	Dennis Summers	St. John's	stabbed in the heart behind Baine Johnson	father Patrick Summers, butcher	aged 20 years
1856
Conception-Bay Man - 24 September 1856	Edward Smith	Spaniards Bay	drowned while boarding a boat	sailmaker	widower, aged 28 years
Conception-Bay Man - 13 November 1856	Hercule LeFort	St. Lawrence	struck by boom and drowned near the narrows	wife and children
Conception-Bay Man - 13 November 1856	Josiah Perry	Catalina	tripped and fell off schooner at Harbour Grace	son of Noah Perry	born in Western Bay in 1833
Conception-Bay Man - 19 November 1856	David Barry Patrick Quigley		killed by the following of a chimney
1857
Conception-Bay Man - 4 March 1857	John Canty	Harbour Grace	burnt to death in rooming house	planter
Conception-Bay Man - 4 March 1857	Philip Corban	Spaniards Bay	burnt to death in rooming house in Harbour Grace	wife Jane; children: Richard (12), Mary Ann (10), James (8), Ellen (6), William (3), Catherine (8 months); brother William Corban	schooner owner
Conception-Bay Man - 4 March 1857	Stephen Scallon	Harbour Grace	burnt to death in rooming house	no relatives
Conception-Bay Man - 4 March 1857	Charles Day	Old Shop	burnt to death in rooming house	fisherman
Conception-Bay Man - 4 March 1857	Ellen Foley, infant	Harbour Grace	burnt to death in rooming house	daughter of Edmond Foley
Conception-Bay Man - 28 October 1857	Miss Randle, serving girl	Tizzard’s Harbor	suspicious death
1858
Express – 27 January 1858	William Williams	Manuels	heart attack	survived by his wife Dorcas and two children
Express – 15 June 1858	William Churchill	Ochre Pit Cove	hung himself while drunk		school teacher
Conception-Bay Man - 16 June 1858	Patrick Joseph Dillon	Harbour Grace	drowned in well		aged 18 months
Express – 17 August 1858	Thomas Lynch	Kings Bridge, St. John's	affliction of the heart
Express – 21 September 1858	Jonas Barter	St. John's	burnt in a house fire	wife Eliza; children: Jane and George; grandsons Jonas Barter and William Jonas Barter Stabb; nephew Jonas Barter	builder
Weekly Express – 21 September 1858	William Harrison Clarke	Southside, St. John's	drowned falling off wharf	son of Abraham Clarke	aged 3 years, 6 months
Conception-Bay Man - 13 October 1858	Charlotte Andrews at Hawke’s Harbour	Harbour Grace	natural death		aged 20 years
Conception-Bay Man - 13 October 1858	Providence Chipman	Spaniard’s Bay	caught fire	daughter of John Chipman	infant
1859
Weekly Express – 24 May 1859	Richard Foley	St. John's	found drowned on Southside		old man
Weekly Express – 24 May 1859	Michael Tobin	St. John's	found drowned	wife and young family	night watchman McBride & Kerr
Weekly Express – 24 May 1859	Anastasia Raftus	St. John's	drowned in Apple Tree well		young girl
1860
Supreme Court - 27 February 1860	William Keefe	Blackhead	hit in the head by a rock during a fight	son of John Keefe
Harbour Grace Standard – 28 March 1860	Eliza Underhay, widow	Hearts Content	died of exposure	widow of Richard Underhay, merchant
Harbour Grace Standard – 26 December 1860	John Murphy	Harbour Grace	died at the chapel of heart disease on 21 December	wife Ellen; daughters: Ann, wife of John Ryan; and Norah, wife of Patrick Strapp Jr (deceased); grandchildren John and Mary Murphy	a native of Co. Cork, Ireland, aged 78 years
1861
Royal Gazette – 10 December 1861	Timothy Dunn	Harbour Grace	died of wounds from a hail of stones		police constable
1862
Harbour Grace Standard – 5 February 1862	John Snow	Harbour Grace	hit his head on the ice after being hit by Terrence Butt	sister-in-law Frances Snow	aged 69 years
Harbour Grace Standard – 26 March 1862	Henry Sheppard	Spaniards Bay	drowned	son of Francis & Ann Shepherd	aged 23 years
Supreme Court - 10 April 1862	William Manning	St. John's	shot stealing firewood
1863
Supreme Court - 14 May 1863	Jane Carew	Broad Cove, Bonavista Bay	murdered by her husband Mick Carew	brothers-in-law Edward and Maurice Carew
Harbour Grace Standard – 28 October 1863	Mark Emberley	Harbour Grace	drowned between wharf and vessel		mate on the Brig Dolphin
1864
Harbour Grace Standard – 14 December 1864	Dennis Clance	St. John's	found drowned		elderly man
1865
Harbour Grace Standard – 19 April 1865	Robert Murphy	Carbonear Road	died of exposure
Patriot – 30 May 1865	Joseph Aylesbury	St. John's	suicide		aged about 60 years
Harbour Grace Standard – 30 August 1865	William Fromage	Rose Blanche	drowned	a native of England	aged 30 years
1866
Harbour Grace Standard – 17 January 1866	Thomas Hennessey	Harbour Grace	heart disease		aged homeless man
Harbour Grace Standard – 21 February 1866	Thomas Granfield	Harbour Grace	died of exposure		fisherman
Supreme Court - 11 November 1866	Thomas Newell	North River	peritonitis	son of John Newell
1867
Patriot - 25 November 1867	Stephen Strapp	Harbour Main	drowned at Harbour Grace	son of Patrick Strapp	aged 29 years
1871
Harbour Grace Standard - 13 September 1871	Mrs. Kate Trapnell	Harbour Grace	poisoned		aged 26 years
Harbour Grace Standard - 29 November 1871	Jane Sears Geehan	Harbour Grace	heart disease or perhaps murder	husband Patrick Geehan was hung in 1872 for the murder of his brother-in-law Garrett Sears	aged about 50 years
1872
Harbour Grace Standard - 21 February 1872	James Collis	Trinity	died of injuries from a beating in St. John's		aged 36 years
Star – 18 June 1872	John Burke	Witless Bay	drowned		aged 24 years
Star – 18 June 1872	George Cahill	Witless Bay	drowned		aged 45 years
Harbour Grace Standard - 4 September 1872	George Smith	Upper Island Cove ?	drowned at Harbour Grace in August
1873
Harbour Grace Standard – 8 January 1873	William Percy	Brigus ?	lost on the Magnolia near Fermeuse	brother of Stephen Percy	captain
Harbour Grace Standard – 8 January 1873	George Newbury	Brigus	lost on the Magnolia near Fermeuse
Harbour Grace Standard – 8 January 1873	James Haberman (Haberline)	Brigus	lost on the Magnolia near Fermeuse
Harbour Grace Standard – 8 January 1873	Charles Churchill	Portugal Cove	lost on the Magnolia near Fermeuse
Harbour Grace Standard – 8 January 1873	Stephen Hibbs	Portugal Cove	lost on the Magnolia near Fermeuse	son of Elizabeth Hibbs
Harbour Grace Standard - 14 May 1873	James Coffee	Spaniards Bay	killed during a drunken fight with Singleton
Harbour Grace Standard - 2 August 1873	Bishop	Cupids	drowned near Pouch Cove	son of William Bishop
1874
Harbour Grace Standard - 24 January 1874	William A. White	St. John's	drowned in Quidi Vidi Lake	son of Rev. William White	aged 21 years
Harbour Grace Standard - 24 January 1874	James Barber	St. John's	drowned in Quidi Vidi Lake	son of late Capt. Barber	aged 21 years
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	John Stevenson	Harbour Grace	heart attack
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	James Bartlett	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress	son of captain Isaac Bartlett	married
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	John Rourke	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and child
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	James Walsh	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		unmarried
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Elijah Mercer	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and five children
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	John Jones	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and three children
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Edward Snow	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	John Snow	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		unmarried
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	James Snow	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and five children
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Henry Holmes	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and four children
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Isaac Kearley	Bay Roberts	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Garland Courage	Harbour Grace	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and six children
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	William Butler	Port de Grave	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and one child
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874'	George Butler	Port de Grave	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		wife and one child
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Patrick Peddigrew	St. John's	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		unmarried
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	James Buik (or Brick)	St. John's	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress	engineer, a native of Scotland	wife and five children
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	John Hollohan or Houlihan	Holyrood	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		unmarried
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Michael McCabe	Southern Gut	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		unmarried
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	William Hurley	Liverpool	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	Samuel Booth	Philadelphia	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress		engineer
Harbour Grace Standard - 18 April 1874	William Reynolds	Dublin	killed in the explosion of the boiler on the S.S. Tigress
Harbour Grace Standard - 22 August 1874	John Clark	Upper Island Cove	natural causes
Royal Gazette – 29 December 1874	Azariah Miller	Twenty Mile Pond	blows to the head		married
1876
Harbour Grace Standard - 24 June 1876	Stephen Devine	Bell Island	drowned		aged 23 years, unmarried
Terra Nova Advocate – 5 August 1876	Mrs. Anastasia Walsh	Long Pond Road, St. John's	suicide		insane, aged 67 years
1878
Patriot – 22 July 1878	Catherine Morrissey	Hoylestown	accidently shot	husband and three children	aged 32 years

Compiled and Contributed by Edward-Vincent Chafe (2022)

Page Revised by Craig Peterman (November 24, 2022)

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