I did the basic research for this blog series a couple of years ago. Then, as usual, flitted along to the next thing that caught my interest. Now I'm trying to flesh the cases out and present to you my justification for not being a fan of walking along the canal on dark and lonely nights...
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The South Wales Daily News of May 14th 1877 reported on the death of Henry Lewis:
"DROWNED. On Saturday a little boy about six years old, named Henry Lewis, son of John Lewis, gardener, was drowned in the canal near Coedygric Union."
On May 18th the Monmouthshire Merlin gave a few more details:
"DROWNED. On Saturday last, a little boy aged six years, named Henry Lewis, a son of John Lewis a railway guard, at Coedygrick, lost his life by falling into the Monmouthshire Canal from the parapet of the Canal Bridge, near the Workhouse, Coedygrick, along the top of which he was walking."
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Henry was born c. 1871 to Ellen and John Lewis, a GWR guard. The 1881 census places the family at 9 Coedygric Terrace and shows Henry had a little sister, Anne, born in 1875. Henry was buried on May 18th 1877.
By the time of the 1891 census the family were living on Bridge Street and had welcomed another daughter, Mary (b. 1881). In 1901 they were still at 28 Bridge Street - as they were on the 1911 census when it was just Ellen living alone until her death on November 10th 1911.
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