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Offline zetlander

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Tragic families.
« on: Tuesday 09 December 25 20:39 GMT (UK) »
The topic 'Police Records' by Siely outlines the many tragedies experienced by one family.

Girl in Primary School with me lost her mother when she was ten, her brother drowned, her sister killed when a wheel came off a speeding car and ran into her, her niece killed in an aircraft fire.

Do some families have an awful lot of tragedies compared with other families who have none?

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Re: Tragic families.
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 10 December 25 11:57 GMT (UK) »
Out of eleven children born from 1852 to 1877 my great grandparents lost:
1874 Alice aged 1 year, measles
1880, Elizabeth, aged 26.  4 babies in 6 years, 3 pre deceased her.
1881, James aged 17 days, failure to thrive
1884, Eliza aged 12 years
1885, Albert, aged 17 years
1885 George aged 32, mining accident

They left the goldfields around Ballarat around 1888 and moved to Melbourne.
James -Victoria, Australia originally from Keynsham, Somerset.
Janes - Keynsham and Bristol area.
Heale/Hale - Keynsham, Somerset
Vincent - Illogan/Redruth, Cornwall.  Moved to Sculcoates, Yorkshire; Grass Valley, California; Timaru, New Zealand and Victoria, Australia.
Williams somewhere in Wales - he kept moving
Ellis - Anglesey

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Re: Tragic families.
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 10 December 25 12:13 GMT (UK) »
From 1881 to 1889, my great grandfather lost his father, 2 young daughters, his mother, his home and his job. The last two in the Johnstown flood of 1889. He then proceeded to drink himself to death. His wife must have been of stronger stock, she lived until 1931.
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