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Edward Freer Clucas

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Edward was a bonesetter and a farmer (last bonesetter)

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Isle of Man Times, Saturday 3.6.1882, Page 5, Column 5

"Sudden Death of Mr. Clucas, The Strang."

- His Worship, the High Bailiff of Douglas held an inquiry on Monday, at Ballaclucas, Marown, into the cause of death of Mr. Edward Clucas, farmer. Daniel Kneen, mason, Mount Rule, sown said: I have known the deceased many years. He was the proprietor of Ballaclucas, and was in his 43rd year. I was in the habit of going into his house to have a talk with him. On Saturday evening I was there, and he then appeared to be in his usual good health. I left him about 11 o'clock. He was very temperate in his habits. He followed the occupation of a bone-setter, for which his ancestors were celebrated. His father and his grandfather died very suddenly. He has been married about 20 years, and has a family of his own. He was very comfortable in his circumstances. Indeed, his was a happy home. - Frances Clucas, wife of the deceased, said: He enjoyed pretty good health. Sometimes he complained of a pain in his breast and had a cough. He had no medical aid as his health was generally very good, and he could treat himself for the few complaints he had. On Saturday night last he went to bed at about a quarter past eleven. At ten minutes to four o'clock (Sunday morning), I noticed that he began to breathe very heavily. He turned his head on his pillow and died, almost instantly without a struggle. I lifted him and he died in my arms. There was no one in the room at the time. I called one of my daughters, who came instantly, but he was dead. - Dr. T. A. Woods, of Douglas, in his evidence, said: from the history of the case, from what I have learned of the hereditary sudden deaths of his many relatives, from the appearance of his death, I am of the opinion that the immediate cause of death was disease of the heart. - The jury returned the verdict accordingly. To the above we may add that the funeral of the deceased was largely attended. It was nearly a mile long, and one of the largest that has taken place in the parish for a number of years. It was, in fact, a striking testimony to the respect in which the deceased was held. He inherited - if we may use the term in such a case - from his father and grandfather - a remarkable faculty for bone-setting, and by his powers in that respect did a great deal of good to the poor. to them he will be a great loss. Indeed, his services were so often called into requisition that the had determined to give up farming and devote himself almost entirely to bone-setting.

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