Biography:
Raymond Herbert Sear
1926 –1932
Raymond Herbert Sear
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Unmarked grave Raymond Herbert Sear (1926-1932)
Raymond was born in 1926 to David and Winifred (née Paramor) Sear. The family lived at 11, High Street. His father was an Army pensioner.
Tragically, Raymond was drowned in the canal 17 May 1932, aged just five years and ten months. According to evidence given at the inquest, and reported in the Bucks Examiner, 27 May, Raymond, his brother John (aged 8) and their cousins Dennis Sear (aged 10) and his sister had all gone fishing in the Bulbourne at 5.30pm opposite the flour mill. Dennis said that at about 8pm Raymond, carrying his fishing net, wandered away towards Castle Street. He then saw Raymond in the water, just going under. Dennis said he shouted to some men nearby who said they couldn’t swim and besides, the child had just thrown his cap in the water and gone home. The police were later unable to trace them.
Dennis then told John to run home and find his father. He reached home at 8.30pm and his father went to the canal and saw Raymond’s cap and his fishing net floating in the water. “There was no sign of his son and he hurried home on the off-chance he had been rescued and taken home…at 9.15pm he informed the police, who at once commenced to drag the canal.” The body was recovered at 1.40 am the next morning, about 20 yards east of the Lower King’s Road bridge.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
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Unmarked grave Raymond Herbert Sear (1926-1932)
Raymond was born in 1926 to David and Winifred (née Paramor) Sear. The family lived at 11, High Street. His father was an Army pensioner.
Tragically, Raymond was drowned in the canal 17 May 1932, aged just five years and ten months. According to evidence given at the inquest, and reported in the Bucks Examiner, 27 May, Raymond, his brother John (aged 8) and their cousins Dennis Sear (aged 10) and his sister had all gone fishing in the Bulbourne at 5.30pm opposite the flour mill. Dennis said that at about 8pm Raymond, carrying his fishing net, wandered away towards Castle Street. He then saw Raymond in the water, just going under. Dennis said he shouted to some men nearby who said they couldn’t swim and besides, the child had just thrown his cap in the water and gone home. The police were later unable to trace them.
Dennis then told John to run home and find his father. He reached home at 8.30pm and his father went to the canal and saw Raymond’s cap and his fishing net floating in the water. “There was no sign of his son and he hurried home on the off-chance he had been rescued and taken home…at 9.15pm he informed the police, who at once commenced to drag the canal.” The body was recovered at 1.40 am the next morning, about 20 yards east of the Lower King’s Road bridge.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
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