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Armagh Guardian, Northern Ireland, Friday, 2 January 1863
Shooting on Christmas Day ? Fatal Accident
Hugh Bassett, a boy of 17 years of age, son of Mr. Henry Bassett, publican, Church Street, Downpatrick, went to spend Christmas Day with his grandfather Mr. Hugh Hughes, of Ballyrennan. Between 3 and 4 o?clock in the afternoon, he took out a gun to shoot small birds. In crossing the ditch down to the road, it is supposed that he put out the gun to support himself, and that in this way it went off, lodging the whole contents in his breast, and causing instantaneous death. So close was the gun to him that the adding set fire to his clothes, a great portion of which was burned. Deceased was serving his time to the Messrs Joson, builder, of this town. It was impossible to move in any direction about Downpatrick on Christmas Day without positive alarm; for on all sides might be heard the reports of guns, and these deadly weapons, in the majority of cases, were carried by mere boys.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1845 - 1862 (17 years)