Did she fall or was she pushed? This was the question that my mother and her father’s family before her had always wondered. My 3x great-grandmother Sarah Mitchell was found at the bottom of some stairs and died days later in Guy’s Hospital. Her husband, John Mitchell, was suspected of causing the accident and I have been fortunate to find accounts of the inquest in newspaper archives.
John was born on 17 February 1817 in the Yorkshire town of Selby.
As a young boy he must have been excited to watch barges carrying coal along the canal as well as larger vessels
