 William Bury was born in Stourbridge , Worcestershire , the youngest of four children of Henry Bury and his wife Mary Jane ( née Henley ) . He was orphaned in infancy . His father , who worked for a local fishmonger called Joscelyne , died in a horse and cart accident in Halesowen on 10 April 1860 . While on an incline , he fell beneath the wheels of his fish cart and was killed when the horse bolted and pulled the cart over his prone body . William 's mother may have been suffering from post @-@ natal depression at the time of her husband 's death and was committed to the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum on 7 May 1860 suffering from melancholia . She remained there until her death aged 33 on 30 March 1864 . 
