Ryefield

Last Name: Ryefield
Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Age Descriptor: 
eleven
Child: 
child
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That they suppose the body before them to be that of the younger Ryefield drowned at Smiths Ford some days back, and that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning

COD Short Description: 
drowned at Smiths Ford
Original Record: 
3365

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