Life History
1760 |
Born in Ilchester, Somerset.1 |
13th Jan 1760 |
Baptised in Ilchester, Somerset.2 |
16th Jul 1781 |
Married Elizabeth BROWN in St Mary, St Marylebone Road, London.9 Daniel was a bachelor and Elizabeth a spinster both living in the parish of St Mary lebone. Both signed their names. The witnesses were Johan Trimlett and Thos Bird. |
May 1782 |
Birth of son Joseph Brown SCADDING |
from 7th Jan 1784 |
Occupation Coroner in Somerset 1784 Daniel Follet Scadding, gentleman, to replace William Goodson as Coroner for the County of Somerset - (writ in NA Kew) |
13th Oct 1784 |
Birth of son Benjamin Follett SCADDING in Ilchester, Somerset.1,5 |
from 1785 to Aug 1786 |
Occupation Town Clerk for Glastonbury Corporation "In 1785 the town clerk had the nerve to record as if it were corporation business the proceedings of a meeting at the George to appoint waywardens, quite evidently the business of the parishes. Perhaps the last was a mistake, for Daniel Follett Scadding was new to the job as town clerk and did not last for long: he was dismissed "for divers negligences made" and was replaced by John Conway of Wells, gentleman, in August 1786." |
18th Dec 1790 |
Birth of son Francis SCADDING in Somerset.8 |
from 14th May 1792 to 18th Nov 1793 |
Occupation Coroner in Shepton Mallet.3 |
from 14th May 1792 to 18th Nov 1793 |
Resident in Shepton Mallet.3 |
11th Jun 1792 |
Occupation Gent in Shepton Mallet.3 |
5th Mar 1793 |
Birth of son Richard SCADDING in Shepton Mallet.8 |
1812 |
Occupation Coroner in Somerset 1812 Mr. Scadding was coroner at a Wincanton inquest (12 March) Taunton Courier. |
20th Jun 1821 |
Resident in Town Street, Shepton Mallet, Somerset.6 |
19th Jun 1821 |
Died in Shepton Mallet.4,5 |
24th Jun 1821 |
Buried in St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet.7,4 ref no 700. The officiating minister was Thomas Smith the curate. |
Notes
- Transcript of the writ for a new coroner for Somerset from a small irregularly shaped piece of paper kept in the National Archives Reference C 202/172/13
Side 1
1 George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the faith and To the Sheriff of
2 Somersetshire greeting for as much as William Goodson gentleman one of our coroners of your county
3 As [ ] you are informed is deceased. We command you that if it be so then in your full county by the
4 assent of the same county you cause another coroner to be chosen in the place of the sd William
5 who having taken his oath as the manner is may thereupon do and keep those things
6 which concern the Office of a Coroner in the sd county and you shall cause such an one to
7 chosen as best knoweth and can [ ] that office and certify unto his name witness our
8 self at [Ilchester] the twelfth day of December in the twenty fourth year of our reign
Stephens.
Side 2
1 By the Lords Commissioners
2 of the Great Seal of Great
3 Britain
4 By virtue of this writ to me direct
5 at my next County Court hereafter Receipt
6 hereof held at Ilchester in and for my county
7 of Somerset on Wednesday the Seventh Day
8 of January in the Year of Our Lord One
9 thousand seven hundred and eighty four in
10 that full county by the assent of the same
11 county I have caused another Coroner to
12 be chosen in the place of the within named
13 William Goodson deceased [ ( ) ] Daniel
14 Follett Scadding
15 of Ilchester in my
16 county Gentleman which said Daniel
17 Follett Scadding in the same full county
18 has taken the oath as the [ ]
19 that he will do and keep those things
20 which concern the Office of Coroner
21 in the said county as to me is within
22 commanded
23 Peter Sherston Esq
Sheriff of the County of Somerset
[ ] 13 Jan 1784
[ ] - 18/11/1793
Yesterday, one Withey, a labouring man of the parish of Pilton, adjoining this town, was committed by D F Scadding, coroner, to Ilchester gaol, on a string suspicion of murdering his wife, who was found drowned, or rather stifled in mud &c in a pool in a field in the said parish of Pilton, where it is believed that she had lain from the Sunday se'nnight before.
From:Inquests from the Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury - http://www.paulhyb.homecall.co.uk/inquests/INQ1793.HTM Accessed:8 Jan 2008
Sources
- 1. Scadding family research by Lyn Scadding
- www.scadding.demon.co.uk/SOMSC001
- 2. Parish Records - SRO
- Ilchester D/P/ilch 2/1/1
- 3. Paul Mansfield lists of Baptisms, Marriages, Newspapers and Inquests
- www.paulhyb.homecall.co.uk
- 4. Family History Online
- NBI Somerset (SDFHS)
- 5. Bible of Elizabeth Scadding (1834)
- 6. Parish Records - SRO
- 7. Parish Records - SRO
- Ilchester baptisms D/P/ilch 2/1/2
- 8. FreeREG
- Shepton Mallet births
- 9. Parish Records - Westminster City Archives
- No 528