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Offline katjaeb

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Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
« on: Tuesday 10 September 19 20:32 BST (UK) »
This is a Quebec Catholic burial record from 1802. It seems to say that she died of a serrement (if I'm reading it correctly)--a pinch/cramp/constriction? She had just given birth a few weeks ago. Any idea to what medical condition this might have referred? Links to an old French medical dictionary?

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Re: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 10 September 19 20:48 BST (UK) »
I don't think it says "serrement" - I read that part as "munie du sacrement", ie having received the last rites.  ???

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 10 September 19 21:20 BST (UK) »
Oh my gosh, you're right. Thank you! I'm a bit rusty on French, so thank you for your assistance.

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Re: Help making sense of this cause of death? (French language)
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 October 19 05:16 BST (UK) »
I don't think it mentions the cause of death.  I can't read it all but the word which puzzles you looks like a reference to the administration of the “Sacrement”, that is the last rites.
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