WATERFALL Joseph

1840 - 1902  (~ 61 years)  Submit Photo / Document

• Name	WATERFALL Joseph
  Born	Between 1 Oct 1840 and 31 Dec 1840	Maidstone RD, Kent, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	30 Aug 1902	Almshouses, King Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England   [2, 3]
  	Fatal Fire at Bakewell "Poet of the Peak" Suffocated On Wednesday evening on outbreak of fire occurred in the Almshouses in King-street, Bakewell. Smoke was observed issuing from the windows, and an entrance being effected an old man, a cripple from birth, was found to have been suffocated. His name is Joseph Waterfall, and he was well-known as the "Poet of the Peak." How the fire originated it is impossible to say. The event caused great excitement in the town. The fire was extinguished by the local brigade.
  Person ID	I449	Derbyshire Waterfalls
  Last Modified	25 May 2016

  
  

  Father	WATERFALL Abraham,   b. Abt 1798, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	PEAKE Ann,   b. Cal 1806, Holme, Huntingdonshire, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	19 Apr 1831	Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England
  Family ID	F133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S13] GRO Birth Indexes, General Register Office, ((www.freebmd.org.uk)), (www.freebmd.org.uk : accessed 20 May 2016), entry for Joseph Waterfall, volume 5, page 294, December quarter 1840, Maidstone district; citing the General Register Office's England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (Reliability: 3). [S15] GRO Death Indexes, General Register Office, ((www.freebmd.org.uk)), (www.freebmd.org.uk : accessed 25 May 2016), entry for Joseph Waterfall, volume 7b, page 390, September quarter 1902, Bakewell district; citing the General Register Office's England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes (Reliability: 3). [S130] Belper News, Derbyshire. Belper., "Fatal Fire at Bakewell," 1 August 1902, p. 8, col. 6; digital images, \i Findmypast\i0  (www.findmypast.co.uk : accessed 25 May 2016), British Newspaper Archive. (Reliability: 3).