Coroner's Inquests
After 1853 the bulk of Coroners Inquests documentation are to be found in class NC at Beverley (details below). However, the catalogue gives very few names, and none at all for Aughton. The situation is better in the period from 1752 to 1860, as coroners were required to file their inquests at the Quarter Sessions and they gave full abstracts of their inquests.
Aughton came within the jurisdiction of the East Riding, and the Quarter Sessions records are held at:
East Riding Archives and Local Studies Service
County Hall
Beverley
East Riding of Yorkshire
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The most useful records are the Abstracts of Inquests, which include details of dates and places where dead bodies were located, and verdicts. These records are not in a class of their own, but are dispersed over the following classes:
QSF: Quarter Sessions Files, Petitions (but containing some Abstracts of Inquests)
QST: Accounts and Vouchers (but containing some Abstracts of Inquests)
As usual, take care with those entries that simply say Cottingwith (Cottingworth) as this could refer to either East or West Cottingwith.
| Reference | Abstract of Inquests for Aughton | Date |
| QSF/223/D/6 | John Cherrey, accidently drowned; George Hudson, accidently drowned | |
| QSF/259/D/7 | Mary Lawson, found dead - casual death | 13 Oct 1772 |
| QSF/271/D/10 | Emanuel Cookson, drowned - casually, accidentally and through misfortune; Thomas Cookson, drowned - casually, accidentally and through misfortune | 1 Jan 1776 |
| QSF/289/D/8 | George Buttle, drowned - casually accidentally and by misfortune | 29 May 1780 |
| QSF/319/E/6 | Anne Young. burnt | 26 Jan 1788 |
| QSF/337/E/20 | Harriet Carr, accidental drowned | 7 Jun 1792 |
| QSF/337/E/24 | Robert Maltby, accidental drowned | 20 Jan 1792 |
| QST/95/35 | Richard Barker, natural death | 12 Aug 1788 |
| QST/104/22 | William Baker, sudden death | 15 Mar 1791 |
| Reference | Abstract of Inquests for East Cottingwith | Date |
| QSF/191/D/18 | Peter Wilson, killed by a waggon wheel | 2 Aug 1755 |
| QSF/331/E/15 | Matthew Gray, lying dead | 18 Oct 1791 |
| QSF/215/D/15 | (Cottingworth) James Patterick, drowned by accidents | 24 Oct 1761 |
| QSF/259/D/13 | (Cottingworth) Jonathan Hall, accidentally drowned in ye Rever Darwent | 17 Dec 1772 |
| QSF/259/D/13 | (Collingworth) John Burkbeck, accidentally drowned in the Rever Darwent | 19 Dec 1772 |
| QSF/287/D/12 | Mary Watson, burnt - casually and accidentally | 20 Feb 1780 |
| QSF/307/D/17 | Mary Burn, found dead in a field called Croft field, supposed to have had a fit, or from the Visitation of God, and without any marks of violence thereupon her | 17 Sep 1784 |
| Reference | Abstract of Inquests Latham | Date |
| QSF/191/D/18 | Henry Stubbins, accidently killed by a fall from a waggon | 2 Aug 1755 |
| QSF/251/D/11 | Mary Hanson, hanged herself, felodese | 10 Oct 1770 |