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Offline alllegs

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Re: Strange Cause of Death
« Reply #36 on: Sunday 26 August 07 19:16 BST (UK) »
My only interesting one so far is of Jonas Mallinson, he died when he was accidentally run over by his own cart.
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DUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin
YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood, Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow
NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton
NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson
LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson
WL-Williams

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Re: Strange Cause of Death
« Reply #37 on: Sunday 26 August 07 20:33 BST (UK) »
Strange? Well when you know the character of the man, hardly surprising, although I do know that it doesn't always mean what it appears to mean, and was often used as a term for other wasting, or prolonged illnesses...

The callous Callus William Webb/William Webb/William Challis, after dashing all over the country with numerous female companions, (great grandmother Eliza being one) finally succumbed to EXHAUSTION.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
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Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Strange Cause of Death
« Reply #38 on: Sunday 26 August 07 23:15 BST (UK) »
Hi all

I read of a young girl, Honor Sawyer, who died of 'mortification of the bowels" ....she was young...I felt so sorry for her, that I decided to find her in the census etc ... To no avail.... That's what you call true addiction to searching ...LOL ::)


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Travellers = Penfold, Orchard, James
Devon = Middleton,  Waterfield, Adams, Clark/e, Gould
Cornwall = Palmer, Carnarton, Slack/Smith. Morris/h
Wales, New Quay = James, Evans


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Re: Strange Cause of Death
« Reply #39 on: Monday 27 August 07 15:30 BST (UK) »
My great great grandfather's younger brother died at 6 months of teething (1863). I did read somewhere that it was possible to buy medicine to help with teething in the Victorian age but it contained small amounts of arsenic.
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Bassery (France)
Wycliffe; Atty (North Yorkshire)
Metcalfe; Bell; Wymark; Carruthers; Fairgreave; Harrison; Russell (Northumberland/Durham)
McCabe (Ireland)
Phimister (Caithness, Scotland); Oxley (Scotland)
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