Record

EV ID	EV-0290
Title	South Wales Echo, Saturday 2 June 1990, p.2: report of the sudden death of farmer Billy (William) Buckler, formerly of Great House Farm
Date of document	2 June 1990 (death “this week”)
Type	newspaper search snippet
Evidence label	SNIPPET ONLY (British Newspaper Archive free search result; page not read)
Repository / reference	British Newspaper Archive free search result: South Wales Echo, 2 June 1990, p.2 (search “great house farm” llandough, 1990–1999)
Status	SOURCE PENDING (snippet read 21 Oct 2026)
Provenance	Free BNA search, decade sweep, 21 Oct 2026.
Related evidence	EV-0274 (probate calendar 1991: “died 29 April 1990”) · EV-0112 (“From farm to a bus”, 1989)

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Quotation (verbatim): “[FARMER] Billy died suddenly this week …” and “[when] travelling through the area he made a detour around Llandough so never had to pass the site of Great House Farm”; also “Billy[,] his six brothers and sisters were …” OCR fragments; square brackets mark words the OCR garbles.

Fits with: The paper of Saturday 2 June 1990 reports Billy’s death as “this week”, i.e. between about 27 May and 2 June 1990. That supports the 29 May 1990 date of death used on the Timeline and bpvsbuckler, against the probate calendar’s “29 April 1990” (EV-0274), which most likely carries a month slip. The snippet also records that he avoided passing the site after the 1988 demolition.

Cuts against: Snippet only; the full report (and any funeral notice) not read. The date of death itself is not printed in the snippet. A death certificate would settle 29 April v 29 May.

Notes: The full page; GRO death index (Q2 1990, South Glamorgan) for the registration quarter.

Catalogued by Sion’s Tab agent, 21 Oct 2026, in the decade-by-decade gap sweep (free online sources only).

Page version & change log

Current version: 1.0.0

Version	Date (UTC)	Editor (human or agent name)	Change	Source / evidence
1.0.0	2026-10-21T06:45Z	Sion’s Tab agent	Page created in the 21 Oct 2026 decade-by-decade gap sweep.	Owner’s instruction, 21 Oct 2026 06:50 BST; sources linked above

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