While researching my Tait family
I came across a reference to an announcement of one of the daughters' wedding in the newspaper for Bath, Somerset. I only have the one family that was in Bath
for one generation from Scotland then immigrated to Canada, so I don't have
a subscription for that set of British Newspapers. I asked in a group and a
kind person offered to look it up for me and she found that article and two others. These are the two stories:
On the 24th of April, a beautiful spring day in 1901, Alice Tait and her
brother Andrew went boating on the Avon River with some friends, starting in
the morning at Maynard’s Boating Station and going upriver past Bathampton to
Warleigh. They spent the day there and headed back to the Boating Station
around 6:40 in the evening. Alice was in a boat with Mr Roberts, and Mr
and Mrs Pope who got off the boat at Bathampton and walked home. They waited
for the other boat holding Mary Davidson and her sister, Mr Cottle and Andrew
Tait. They passed under the bridge and Andrew’s boat got too close to the
weirs and tipped over, the misses Davidson screaming for help. Mr Robert jumped
out of his boat to help the girls, and Alice also got out of her boat and ran for
help, then returned and jumped back in the river to help her brother Andrew,
who was having trouble against the unusually strong currents. Mr Robert couldn't save Miss Mary Davidson and she
drowned in the water. There was a coroner’s inquest the next day at which Alice
had to testify. Andrew was seriously ill for a while but slowly
recovered.
A few days later their father Andrew Smith Tait had a stroke and died.
A few days later their father Andrew Smith Tait had a stroke and died.
You may find some archives of local newspapers in city libraries, universities or historical societies. Below are some links to newspaper archives, and some collections may overlap but better to have more than to miss some.
Relevant Links:
Google News - varied collection - 2-2000 issues
Wikipedia List of Online Newspapers
Family Search list of Digital Historical Newspapers
Australia Newspapers
Ireland Dublin Library
Word on the Street - UK Broadsides
Crime Broadsides (Harvard)
New York Times May 1915, Oct 1915, July 1919
Extracts from old Newspapers - USA
British Newspaper Archives (free to search $)
Greenfield (Mass) Gazette Centennial Edition 1892
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices
Chronicling America LOC Newspapers
Newspaper Collection Wisconsin University
New Hampshire Newspapers
Netherlands Newspapers
The London Gazette
Some Canada Newspapers
Canadian Newspaper Databases & Indexes
Newspaper Links on Active History
Newspaper info at LAC
The Gazette - UK and Ireland
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