In general much coroner's material does not survive (coroners are permitted to destroy material more than 15 years old, unless it predates 1875). While you will see coroner's listed on local government websites, they are independent and maintain their own records. (While this is not a problem with your date, it is also worth noting that coroner's records are generally closed for 75 years, and the coroner's permission will need to be sought when this applies). There is some material in Norfolk Record Office, but I suspect few if no detailed reports of individual inquests. If you go to the online catalogue and use "coroner" along with possibly "norwich" as an index term you will get a detailed list of their holdings (The material generally has the index prefix COR). http://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/ and then select NROCAT. To access any of this material you will need to go to Norfolk Record Office itself. It may also be worth checking The National Archives Discovery catalogue with the same index terms, as there is some miscellaneous Norwich material there (most of the records identified will be back to Norfolk Record Office holdings - unfortunately this will also turn up entries for Norwich coronations!). Your other option is to try the coroner's office directly, but given that the material identified above been deposited, I would think you would be out of luck. https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/births-ceremonies-and-deaths/deaths/the-coroner/contact-the-coroner I would suggest your main source of material would be newspaper records. The British Newspaper Archive currently only has the Bury and Norwich Post up to 1900, The Ipswich Journal to 1902, and the Norfolk Chronicle to 1869 (however material is being added all the time). List is here: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/home/NewspaperTitles It is just possible (if there was something remarkable about the death or the inquest) that a small record may have found its way into national newspapers, so it may be worth checking the Times Digital Archive, which may well be in libraries near you. Alternatively give me a name and a more precise date, and I could check this for you. So for newspaper coverage you may either need to go to the British Library directly, or newspaper offices directly such as the Eastern Daily Press. http://www.edp24.co.uk/home/contact-us My assumption is that you live in Canada, so unfortunately very little of the above will help directly, unless you employ, or otherwise obtain the assistance of, a researcher, or are planning a visit to the UK. You may find someone on the list who is prepared to do a lookup for you, as part of their own visit to Norwich, if you can be specific about what you want checked. regards Keith Drage On 20-Jun-16 5:12 AM, mjquilts via wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to access an inquest record for 1907 in Norwich. > > Thank you > Jean > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:59:02 +0100 Keith Drage via <norfolk@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hello Keith, >I would suggest your main source of material would be newspaper >records. The British Newspaper Archive currently only has the Bury and >Norwich Post up to 1900, The Ipswich Journal to 1902, and the Norfolk >Chronicle In my, admittedly limited, experience of the newspaper archives, it's generally a good idea to avoid limiting one's search to newspapers of the locality of interest. For example, the most complete report I found of a child death (by gunshot, no less) in Kent was reported in a Scottish newspaper. That particular story was reported in several other papers too. There's no doubt that, in the particular case cited above, the cause of death played a not insignificant role in getting the story reported elsewhere. Even so, limiting searches can prove to be a mistake. It seems to me that such small stories would sometimes (often?) be picked up by other local papers because of having pages to fill and not everything locally being of sufficient interest or importance to make it in. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" There's no point in asking you'll get no reply Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols