Preece Family Tree

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Pedigree

1. William Beable
   1. Sarah Oldrey
      1. William Beable
      2. Anne Beable
      3. Susanna Beable
      4. James Beable
      5. John Beable
      6. Thomas Beable
         1. Mary Denbow
            1. Harriett Beable
            2. William Beable
            3. Thomas Beable
            4. Edwin Beable
            5. Eliza Beable
            6. Arthur Beable
      7. George Beable
      8. Nicholas Beable
      9. Edward Beable
      10. Susanna Oldrey Beable

Ancestors

Source References

1. findmypast.co.uk / Devon FHS: Parish Registers - Devon
   1. • Date: 9 January 1807
      • Page: Baptism - Thomas Beable (Ugborough)
   2. • Date: 27 July 1828
      • Page: Marriage - Thomas Beable / Mary Weeks (Plymouth St Andrew)
   3. • Date: 12 June 1862
      • Page: Burial - Thomas Beable (Ugborough)
   4. • Date: 9 May 1858
      • Page: Marriage - John Andrews / Harriett Beable (Ugborough)
2. 1841 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: HO107/218/15/12/19
3. 1851 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: HO107/1874/464/25
4. 1861 United Kingdom Census
   1. • Page: RG9/1420/37/9
5. Western Daily Mercury
   1. • Date: 11 June 1862
      • Page: Page 3
      • Citation:

        INQUEST AT TOTNES.

        At the Market-house Inn on Tuesday, an inquest was held before F. B. Cuming, Esq., deputy-coroner, and a respectable jury, Mr E. Evens, foreman, to enquire into the death of Mr Thomas Beable, of Ugborough, smith, who died suddenly at Totnes on Monday morning, as reported in our columns of yesterday.

        Mr W. Oldrey, bailiff of the County Court, and Mr. W. D. Narramore, clerk in the court office, gave evidence as to the entry of the deceased into the County Court office on Monday morning, between the hours of 10 and 11. Mr Narramore asked the deceased to wait until he was disengaged, when he would attend to him; but before he was ready to do so, the deceased dropped heavily by his side, and on being placed on a chair, he groaned two or three times; but before any restorative could be applied, or medical attendance afforded, life was extinct.

        Arthur Beable, a son of the deceased, stated that his father had worked with him until about 9 on Monday morning, both at North Filliam, where he lived, and where he also had a shop for carrying on his trade, and also at Wrangerten, where he had another shop, and to which they had walked together from North Filliam. The deceased left Wrangerton for Totnes at about 10 o'clock, and intended to return by the mid-day mail train, for which purpose he had a return ticket. He appeared in his usual health, and better than he had been a few days previously. The only indisposition of which he had complained, was a slight giddiness and a pain in his chest, and he was also described as an abstemious man.

        Thomas Edward Owen, of Totnes, surgeon, deposed that he was called into the County Court on Monday morning to see the deceased, whom he found quite dead; he could not, without making a post mortem examination, state the exact cause of death, but it might have ensued from one of three causes - disease of the heart, aneurism, or apoplexy. He did not believe it was from any other than a natural cause, but he could not say what, as he had not attended, nor did he know, the deceased.

        One of the sons of the deceased, older than the one who had been examined, here stated that he recollected his father having been troubled with apoplectic fits about 20 years since, in consequence of which he had relinquished his business of a smith for some years, and turned his attention to farming, but that he had not had an attack for more than fourteen years, and was at the time of his death again following his previous trade. The deceased had been very healthy for many years past, and had only once been attended by any medical gentleman a few months since.

        Mr Owen said that he was still of the opinion at first expressed, and did not doubt that from some physical derangement some vessels might have bursted and caused an overflow of blood to the brain, which would produce sudden death.

        The Coroner having summed up and expressed himself as satisfied with the opinion of Mr Owen, and also as considering a post mortem examination unnecessary, the jury returned a verdict of "Death from natural causes by the visitation of God."

        The body was fast decomposing and much swollen, and after the inquest was removed for interment by the family.

         

   2. • Date: 10 June 1862
      • Page: Page 2
      • Citation:

        ANOTHER SUDDEN DEATH IN TOTNES.

        In our issue of Thursday last we noticed the death of Mr R. Kelland, who died suddenly at Totnes on Wednesday, and on Saturday we gave an account of the death in a similar manner of Mr W. B. Hambling, of Totnes. We now have again the painful duty to record the occurrence of a third of these melancholy events, and all within the space of six days. The town has not recovered the shock caused by the first-mentioned deaths before it is again aroused by the report of another, which, for its suddenness, is more marked than either of the previous ones. Mr Thomas Beable, of Ivybridge and Ugborough, by trade a smith, and aged on Sunday last 56 years, came to Totnes yesterday morning for the purpose of taking out some money from the County Court, and for that purpose he had entered the office of T. Bryett, Esq., the registrar of the court, but had scarce time to make his errand known before he fell suddenly to the floor a lifeless being. Mr W. Oldrey, the bailiff of the court, with one of the clerks - Mr W. H. Narramore - were in the office at the time. Mr Oldrey picked up the unfortunate man, but all signs of animation had fled. The body was removed to the Market-house Inn, where it awaits the coroner's inquest, which will be held this day. A messenger was despatched to Ugborough to acquaint the relatives and friends of the deceased of their melancholy bereavement; and some of the family immediately came to Totnes to attend the inquest, &c. We understand that the deceased has complained lately of a pain in his chest, also of giddiness, but no serious result was or has been anticipated. Mr W. Kellock was in immediate attendance, and tried means for restoring animation, but without avail. A gloomy sensation pervades the town, as may very naturally be expected, from the occurrence of these mournful events; but the individual sorrow is not great, as two of the three who have thus hastily been snatched away are comparative strangers to to town; but yet the fact of their being such does not lessen the general feeling of anxiety and consternation, and the truth of the proverb "In the midst of life we are in death" is the more truthfully felt and acknowledged.