Drowning death at Lock 16 in 1889.

[rhyddid]

Hello everyone,
My great grandmother's brother George Hogg drowned at Lock 16 on the Forth & Clyde Canal, Falkirk, on the 29th June 1889 aged 9.
I'm wondering if it would've been reported in a newspaper and if so, which paper?
Thanks for any advice.
Debbie.

[Lindsay]

There is a very brief report in the Scotsman 1 July (with mistake in name):
DROWNED IN THE CANAL.—Yesterday morning the body of John Hogg, 10 years of age, son of a foreman surfaceman, residing near Camelon, was found in the canal there.

[Currie]

It’s almost exactly the same in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal on Tuesday 2nd.
“On Sunday morning the body of John Hogg etc.”

Alan

[AndrewP]

The local paper should be the Falkirk Herald.

http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/

I don't see an archive look-up section there. You could try dropping them an e-mail.

Or contact Falkirk Library. They hold archives of the Falkirk Herald.

http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/comm ... aries.aspx

All the best,

AndrewP