Strange Cause of Death

[LizzieW]

AVM and Sue

Seems to have been a regular type of accident.  According to my mum, her grandfather was coming back from market - drunk - when he fell from his cart and died.  I've yet to get his death certificate to see if that was true.

Liz

[Comosus]

"Abcess in the back" was the cause of my GGGG Grandfather's death.  We think he may have been involved in the Bradford chartist riots in 1840, and injured.

Also "Drowned while in a state of temporary insanity" for my GG Grandfather, who committed suicide.

I have recently ordered the death certificate for my great grandfather's brother, who I only just discovered - he died aged 12 and I couldn't not order it - I'm dying to know what happened (no pun intended).

Andrew

[cavegirl]

I've recently been doing some work for LancashireBMD transcribing death certificates and checking ages at death etc. 

The strangest cause of death I have seen so far was for a little boy aged 10 in 1891 and goes like this:

 'Killed by being struck on head by Coconut thrown from a Coconut Shy in Coconut Alley by boy's young friend.  Accidental.'

Strange but true...

[csh]

I have read all your posts with interest.

I havent got any really unusual deaths yet, but it is only me that since researching my family tree, I find myself wondering when I have a death of how they passed on and I have to admit that when I get certificates through the post I do get excited.

Am I a bit morbid??

Regards

[Windsor87]

This thread would have been handy two minutes ago...

Greatx5 grandfather, John Bruce. He was struck by lightning in 1864 aged 69.

It's in the saddest death thread.

Sorry for posting twice...

[little meg]

Not mine,
but found a record of someone thrown into the Leeds/Liverpool canal by his horse, he drowned.

Margaret

[lizdb]

poor horse ......  was the man OK?
 

[little meg]

sorry, it was the man that drowned, no idea what happened to the horse.

[deeiluka]

Don't know if you would call it strange.....definitely sad....and very definitely ghastly .....a great grand uncle suicided a few years after WW1 by drinking Lysol. He had been badly wounded in the stomach during the war, and from then on his activities definitely indicate he suffered what would now be known as post traumatic stress syndrome.    

......dee