June 1804, from a London News Sheet, (The earliest newspaper report found)

On Monday se'nnight an Inquest was held at Gornal, in the parish of Sedgley, Derbyshire [sic] on the body of John Marston, an old man who was knocked down and gored by a bull, one of the horns of the animal having passed through his right thigh, of which wound, after languishing for some days, he expired. -Verdict, Accidental Death.

Sun (London)

9 December 1826.

Inquisition held before Henry Smith, Esq. Coroner at Bilston:-
At Upper Gornall, on Fanny Lawton, a child about four years old, who on Saturday was at play with some other children in a casting-house, belonging to Lord Dudley's furnace, at Gornall Wood, when her clothes took fire, and she was so dreadfully burned that she died on Monday.

Staffordshire Advertiser.

14 October, 1838.

There is a man, named Flavell, residing at Gornal, near Dudley, by trade a nailer, commonly called "Major Flavell", who has had no less that eight wives, all of whom he has buried, and is now busily on the look out for another. By each of his wives he has had one child, & of the eight children seven are living.

The Birmingham Journal

January, 1846.

EXTRAORDINARY PRACTICE -On Friday, the 19th instant, and by adjournment on Monday, an inquest was held at the Bush Inn, Gornall Wood, before T.M. Philips, Esq., on the body of Hannah Collins, a married woman, about 54 years of age. The deceased, it appeared, worked as a nailer, and on Tuesday week complained to Maria Marsh, who worked with her, that she was ill with "a rising of the lights, " and asked Marsh to give her some shot to swallow, saying she had taken some before for the same complaint, and they had done her good. Marsh had none; but next day Collins told Marsh she had taken some, procured from a neighbour named Abbiss, and was better. She began to work again, but died on Tuesday. Mr.J.H. Browne, surgeon stated that he had made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased, and found the right lung in a state of ossification, which was the cause of death. Verdict accordingly. [The swallowing of shot is, it appears, a common practice on Gornall and the neighbourhood, in order to cure "a rising or the lights."

The Wolverhampton Chronical

['A rising of the lights' (lungs) is an old medical term for Croup, a respiratory condition: 'shot' is presumed to be lead shot.]