Author Topic: Multiple Deaths 1820 Torpoint/Antony/Plymouth  (Read 1821 times)

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Multiple Deaths 1820 Torpoint/Antony/Plymouth
« on: Wednesday 06 April 11 04:02 BST (UK) »
Two of my ancestors died in the month of May 1820 in or around Torpoint. Seems a little odd. They were father and son. One was 84 so no surprise there but the other was in  his prime.

I am wondering if anyone knows of an epidemic or any other likely cause of death for time and place?

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Re: Multiple Deaths 1820 Torpoint/Antony/Plymouth
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 06 April 11 04:43 BST (UK) »
hope you are okay with this info to give you an idea

sylvia

http://www.genealogyforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=6600

have you a name for the 2 people and i will check deaths
notts/derbys clark
      "        "      stenson
        "       "    nicholson
       "     "        jarvis
                         castledine
    rhodes

 
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Re: Multiple Deaths 1820 Torpoint/Antony/Plymouth
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 06 April 11 04:48 BST (UK) »
John and Richard Hoskyn. I only have wills so no record of how they died. I think we are unlikely to find that. I am looking thus as a start at epidemics.

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Re: Multiple Deaths 1820 Torpoint/Antony/Plymouth
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 13 April 11 20:25 BST (UK) »
It wouldn't need to be an epidemic, just an illness one caught from the other or maybe they were both injured in an accident.  This is an age before preventive medicine and even diarrhoea which is controlled now, could severely dehydrate someone.

Or they could have died of unrelated causes.  I have instances of family members dying within a few days of eachother from different illnesses.

Unless it says in the burial register I guess you are unlikely to find out.
Chowns in Buckinghamshire
Broad, Eplett & Pope in St Ervan/St Columb Major, Cornwall
Browning & Moore in Cambridge, St Andrew the Less
Emms, Mealing & Purvey in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham in Norfolk
Higho in London
Matthews & Nash in Whichford, Warwickshire
Smoothy, Willsher in Coggeshall & Chelmsford, Essex