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Title: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
Post by: katjaeb on Tuesday 10 September 19 20:32 BST (UK)

This is a Quebec Catholic burial record from 1802. It seems to say that she died of a serrement (if I'm reading it correctly)--a pinch/cramp/constriction? She had just given birth a few weeks ago. Any idea to what medical condition this might have referred? Links to an old French medical dictionary?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
Post by: Manchester Rambler on Tuesday 10 September 19 20:48 BST (UK)

I don't think it says "serrement" - I read that part as "munie du sacrement", ie having received the last rites.  ???

Rambler

Title: Re: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
Post by: katjaeb on Tuesday 10 September 19 21:20 BST (UK)

Oh my gosh, you're right. Thank you! I'm a bit rusty on French, so thank you for your assistance.

Title: Re: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
Post by: Southvancouver on Friday 04 October 19 05:16 BST (UK)

I don't think it mentions the cause of death.  I can't read it all but the word which puzzles you looks like a reference to the administration of the “Sacrement”, that is the last rites.