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Offline Jane Masri

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10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes
« on: Tuesday 10 December 13 16:48 GMT (UK) »
Thought this would interest RootsChatters  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25259505

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Re: 10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 10 December 13 17:11 GMT (UK) »
You had to be wary of drink as well  :o. The first schedule of the 1872 Licensing Act lists the "Deleterious Ingredients" or banned additives that were being used to adulterate drink   http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/35-36/94/schedule/FIRST/enacted

In most cases the substances were used to increase the intoxicating power of the drink, but a few were used as dyes.

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Re: 10 dangerous things in Victorian/Edwardian homes
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 15 December 13 22:53 GMT (UK) »
How did any of our ancestors ever survive to begat us?
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)
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