Edward Head was born in 1814.
1,2,3 He and
Sarah Fuller were married. He died in 1850, at age ~36, in Ohiro, Wellington, dray accident.
4 Coroner's Inquest. ? An inquest was held on Monday, at the Ship Hotel, Te Aro, before Dr Fitzgerald, Coroner, on the body of Edward Head, a settler living at Ohiro (Brooklyn, Wellington), who was killed under the following melancholy circumstances:
Reuben Short, labourer, in the employ of the deceased deposed, that on Saturday evening last, about seven o'clock, he had just left deceased's house to get some water, when he saw the bullock dray, drawn by one bullock, coming along the road Mr and Mrs Head were on it. Mr Head's dog began to bark at the bullock, and the bullock bolted. Mr Head jumped off the shaft to catch the bullock when the wheel caught the heel of his shoe and threw him down and the wheel of the dray passed over him. He was about twenty yards from the dray when it capsised on Mrs Head, she was thrown off and the dray fell on her. The witness lifted the dray and pulled Mrs Head from under it and placed her on the grass, and then sent for a doctor. G. D. Monteith, the Surgeon, deposed that he found the deceased complaining of very great pain and suffering apparently from internal injuries he said the wheel of the dray had passed over his chest his side was much injured, but witness did not like to proceed with the examination as deceased was apparently dying. He died the following morning at five o'clock the witness since ascertained that some of the ribs on the left side were fractured, which no doubt occasioned death. The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The deceased has left a widow and four children, one an infant at the breast. Mrs Head, his widow, unfortunately, received a severe compound fracture of the left leg from the dray falling on her.
Immigration:
Martha Ridgeway Ship: 621 tons Captain: James Forbes Bisset Surgeon Superintendent: John Frederick Knox Sailed London 5th July 1840 - arrived Wellington 14th November 1840 Via Downs on morning of 9th July 1840 and via Isle of Wight 6pm on 11th July 1840.
Head, Edward 26 Agricultural Labourer. Edward Head had person sources.
2 He was an Agricultural Labourer in 1840.
2 He immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Martha Ridgeway arriving NZ 14/11/1840 on 5 July 1840.
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