Two pieces with parish links appeared in this week’s Batley News. As ever, the spelling and punctuation matches that of the newspaper.
The first piece this week was in the Family Notices:
BATLEY
Flatley. —May 21, aged 1, John, son of John Flatley, 25, Ambler Street.
The second concerned an inquest, with parishioner John Flynn giving evidence.
An enquiry into the death of a male child of Alice Peacock, a single woman, lodging at 15, Fleming Street, Batley, engaged the attention of Coroner P. P. Maitland and a jury yesterday. —According to the evidence of John Flynn, an attendant at Batley Hippodrome, the woman, a native of London, who he had known for some years, came to lodge with him on May 2nd. She had neither home nor relatives, and had been in service at Bradford. She has one child of four years, which was boarded out at Low Moor. She had money to pay her way. He took compassion on her and gave her shelter. Her explantation given to him was that maternity hospitals did not take second cases of illegitimacy. She assisted in the housework, and seemed all right on Monday evening when he left home for duty. He returned about 10.30 and found a child has been born. —Ellen Asquith, widow, 10, Fleming Street, and Fanny Bailey, 13, Royd Street, Hanging Heaton, gave evidence. —Dr. H. Keighley, who made a post-mortem examination, said the child was stillborn. —A verdict of “Still-born through want of assistance at birth” was returned. —The Coroner commended Flynn on acting kindly under very delicate circumstances and taking into his house the friendless woman. It would have been better, however, if there had been a woman at hand to render assistance to the mother.
John Flynn subsequently married Alice Peacock.
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