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robbyd
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Smallpox in the 1830`s
« on: Wednesday 05 January 05 18:11 GMT (UK) »
Hi, l wonder if someone could give me some advice?

My gggrandfather William SALISBURY died of smallpox on 17th April 1838 in Bury St Edmunds, but l cannot find a burial record for him! l have been told that because he had smallpox he may have been in a workhouse??, the informant on the death cert is a Benjamin Cook a hosier living at the Butter market, Bury st Edmunds, William was a shoemaker, where on the cert it says date and place of death there is just the date no location?.

Any help or advice would be most welcome.

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Robert Salisbury
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Re: Smallpox in the 1830`s
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 06 January 05 16:38 GMT (UK) »
Robert

Workhouses were used as hospitals, so he may well have been taken into one, though most parishes had a "pest house" where people with infectious diseases were treated.

Have you looked for his burial in all the BSE parishes?  I suppose it is possible if there was a major epidemic, that he could have ended up in a mass grave, but a whole family of my ancestors died of smallpox and were buried in their local churchyard.

Rick Smiley
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Re: Smallpox in the 1830`s
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 06 January 05 17:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi Rick

Thanks for the advice, l have checked the St mary`s and St james parish`s in bury but nothing shows up, he may well have been buried outside of bury? it`s no help not knowing in which parish/area William was born!, l have his marriage entry in Timworth and it says " of this parish " but can find nothing matching in baptism records 1800-1805......sorry l`m going on.

Once again thanks for your help

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Robert
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