Cause of Death "Uknown"

[Ayashi]

This puts me in mind of my own grandmother, who went into hospital with a broken arm after a fall and died while there from an unrelated infection. The fall might have put your ancestor in the hospital but later died from something that wasn't connected, hence the 'unknown'. I suppose this is the more blunt way of saying some of the previous causes, such as "called by God"...

[torre]

I have a death cerificate for my great great grandfather who died in Norfolk in December 1877.
The death was registered by the coroner after an inquest. Cause of death.  Died suddenly of natural causes.
His wife, who he had known since childhood, died a few weeks earlier of typhoid.
There was food in the house when he died, he had a tied home and a job.

His very young children had been  taken into the workhouse and it was Christmas.
I think he died of a broken heart.

[Lola5]

Yes. I agree. It.s enough to break anyone.s heart.
And people died of stress and sorrow though it was often given some other name.

But he may have had underlying heart disease or  some infection .

And Christmas  time the authorities  wouldn't have been too bothered about another pauper unless it was a murder case.
But we care.