Gabriel Williams. Born Bristol September 12 1834. Died March 24 1893.
Gabriel was the proprietor of The Ferry Hotel / Ye Ferry Hotel, Coldmoorholm, Little Marlow. He had only been in charge for 2 months when he suffered a freak accident. While cleaning out a pig sty, he scraped his hand on a rusty nail. The wound became infected and he died suddenly of blood poisoning. Poor Gabriel's wife Catherine took over. A couple of months after his death she recieved a £1000 payment from the Railway Passengers Assurance Association ( which now offered general life cover, you didn't have to die as a result of a train accident.) Formerly of Bristol, where he had retired in 1891 as a traveller for Messrs Harris & Co.
Grave is at St. John the Baptist Church, Little Marlow
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