James Steer

• Birth Notes

  age 50 1841

• Death Notes

  Report of death in West Sussex Gazette 16 February 1871.Wisborough Green
  Sad death of an old man by falling downstairs. An inquest was held Thursday last at the Three Crowns Inn. H Upton Deputy Coroner into the death of James Steer aged 80 years. It appeared from the
  witness that a neighbour who occasionally washed for the deceased went into his house and found him lying at the bottom of the stairs with his feet upwards quite dead. Mr Boxall surgeon said he only found a slight bruise of the left leg. His, the doctors opinion was that the deceased being infirm had been unable to extricate himself when he fell and was suffocated. The jury reached the verdict to the effect that the deceased was suffocated by accidentally falling downstairs

• General Notes

  Parents George Steer & Mary

Details of James' family with Rebecca Miram