NZ BDM birth index

1873/166	Waterson 	Alfred Herbert 	Roselta	John

=School Records (APWs)=

Name
WATERSON Alfred School Carterton Boys Register Number 113 Former Reg. No

Admission Date 21 Sep 1880 Parent / Guardian John Waterson (Farmer) Address

Birthdate 27 Mar 1873 Last School

Last Day 27 Apr 1881 Destination Home Comment

Further enquiries to Wairarapa Branch - NZSG

School Inspector Returns

Name
WATERSON Alfred School Matarawa Education Board Wellington Year 1885 Reference EB-W8/1 Comments

Further enquiries to Archives NZ - Wellington

Wairarapa Newspaper Index

• Name: WATERSON Alfred
• Date: 27 Sep 1886
• Paper: Wairarapa Daily
• Page 3, Column 1
• Comments: Death
• Further enquiries to: Check Record Source below for further details

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Inquest:= WAIRARAPA STANDARD, VOLUME XIX, ISSUE 1890, 29 SEPTEMBER 1886

An inquest was held on Monday before Dr Spratt, coroner, upon the body of Alfred Waterson, who met with his death so suddenly at Matarawa, as reported in our last. Evidence was given which showed that the deceased was helping his brother to put a straining post into a hole. The post was a very heavy one and by some means it canted and the weight being more than John Waterson could sustain, Alfred ran to assist in keeping it perpendicular. It fell, however, and struck him upon the head, death being almost instantaneous. The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental Death."

MARLBOROUGH EXPRESS, VOLUME XXII, ISSUE 178, 28 SEPTEMBER 1886
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

On Saturday afternoon, a distressing and fatal accident occurred at Dalefield, a sawmilling township in the Wairarapa. A lad named Alfred Waterson, aged 13 years, the youngest son of Mr John Waterson, was engaged assisting one of his brothers in erecting a wire fence. The brother had put a straining post in a hole and asked the lad Alfred to hold it. The post slipped and, in falling, struck Alfred on the left temple, the blow knocked him down with the back of his head on a sharp end of the stump of a tree, smashing it in. The boy died ten minutes after the accident.