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Messages - kristof

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The Common Room / Re: TB as cause of death?
« on: Tuesday 04 March 25 21:43 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for your suggestions - I suppose I'm inclined more towards the TB diagnosis, though, saying that, it is and can only ever remain speculative. As was noted above, in 1899, I think TB would be more likely in a 30 year old than an advanced lung tumour. While it's certainly possible that she had another condition, TB was endemic at the time - I've also read various commentaries that suggest that women and younger people were disproportionally effected by the disease. But, it's a guess, albeit, a reasonable guess I think.

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The Common Room / TB as cause of death?
« on: Wednesday 26 February 25 06:37 GMT (UK)  »
I'm curious to know what people think was the cause of death in this case.

It was written up in a local paper in Australia in 1899: "while his daughter, who had been in delicate health for some time was alone at home, preparing to go to a social event..."
"...found his daughter lifeless and covered with blood due to the bursting of a blood vessel."

I ordered the death certificate and the cause of death is given as 'hemorrhage of the lungs'. She was 30 years old.

So, I assume that this means she had tuberculosis? Is there any other possible cause of death any one can think of?

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Australia / Re: Death at Sea question
« on: Tuesday 28 January 25 06:04 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, I've managed to track down almost all the news articles, even the listing for probate in the UK, it's just the issue of whether there was an inquest or not and if a ruling was made regarding the cause of her death, was it intentional or not.

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Australia / Re: Death at Sea question
« on: Tuesday 28 January 25 03:42 GMT (UK)  »
Well, the newspaper reports are a bit ambiguous - one witness suggested she fell while leaving over the rail, another suggested that she jumped. Apparently it was calm weather so unlikely the movement of the ship unbalanced her, it was 11am in the morning, so not night time or anything. Perhaps an inquest wasn't carried out? I suppose it would be good to know, one way or another though, that way I can stop looking.

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Australia / Re: Death at Sea question
« on: Tuesday 28 January 25 02:20 GMT (UK)  »
Yes it was Mary Sturgeon. So, there's no mention of an inquest on Trove, nothing turns up on a search of the state archives of either Vic. NSW or TAS, nor the National Archives. So, I was wondering if an inquest was even carried out, but if it was, which jurisdiction would have done it and where the record would be held?

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Australia / Death at Sea question
« on: Tuesday 28 January 25 00:33 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to find out more about records relating to a death at sea in 1925
The person in question fell overboard in Bass Strait from a ship traveling from Sydney to Hobart, between Gabo Island and Flinder's Island.  Their body was recovered and then given a burial at sea - they fell overboard at 11am and the burial at see took place at 4pm (though why they didn't just wait until they got to Hobart is beyond me?).
My question is, would there have been an inquest in their death and if so, would it have been conducted in Victoria, Tasmania or even New South Wales, as that was where the ship sailed from? Or would they not have bothered with an inquest at all?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher name
« on: Sunday 07 March 21 23:14 GMT (UK)  »
I can't provide much in the way of background information and don't know if the name is Gaelic or not. But, what I can say is that they were in Queensland in the early 1990's and that's as far as I have got with trying to figure out who they are. I'm glad to see that it's not just me who is stumped by the name.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Decipher name
« on: Sunday 07 March 21 21:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, this should be an easy one but it's got me stumped, I can't work out the surname. I can see clearly 'Annette' and the surname begins with 'B' but that's about as far as I can go with it.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Book identification in photograph Elizabeth Williams
« on: Friday 05 February 21 22:48 GMT (UK)  »
Her husband, Samuel Williams, died in 1878 in Cornwall aged 54. Elizabeth took her family to Australia in 1882 and died in Bundaberg in 1911 aged 86.

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