Mary Ann Gorman 

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a) DEATH:Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Monday, February 14, 1831; Issue 1636.nAnother inquest was held on Thursday last, before the same Coroner (Franklin Howard), on view of the body of Mary Ann Norster, the wife of a Barrowman, residing in Twine's Court, in Wickham Street, Portsea, who came to her death the preceding afternoon, from the following cause. She was addicted to drinking, and she would be in a state of intoxication at times for days together. She was in this state on Wednesday afternoon, and her husband put her to bed, in an up-stairs room, and locked her in, which he was in the habit of doing by her own request, when in that state. He had not left the house more than five minutes, when she was observed endeavouring to get out of a window, and in doing so, she lost her balance, and fell head-foremost into the Court upon the stones, a distance of 30 feet, by which her head was dreadfully fractured and she died shortly after. Verdict - Accidental Death.