Browse objects

Coroner's report for the death of Michael Higgins

Findspot: 
England
Period: 
Date: 
1837

Baby walkers like the one above were used to help a child learn to walk and to protect it from falling into open fires at the home - a real danger, as seen in the coroner’s report regarding the death of Michael Higgins, aged three years, who accidentally fell into the kitchen fire in 1837.

Collection information

Collection: 
Cambridgeshire Archives
Accession No: 
KCB/Co/2/1/66

Exhibition details

Catalogue number: 
79

Click image(s) below to enlarge

X

Administrator login