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Topic: Unusual causes of death (Read 3607 times)
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stonechat
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1579
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In the more distant reaches of my tree I have killed in a train crash and killed in a earthquake
Bob
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Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire NOTE I have moved my website to http://www.cotswan.com |
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Viktoria
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 399
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Chinakey, there is an old hall near where I live ,it was up for auction and we went for a nosey. My son`s friend lived in the farm cottages and it was well known that there could be heard ghostly hymn singing in the corner of the dining room of the hall. We could not afford the renovation work and forgot about it. Some years later there was a local car boot sale and I like old books and there was a good selection. One in particular caught my eye, a small calfskin bound volume about six inches by three with a criss-cross pattern tooled on the back and front. The pages were hand cut and the paper really thick.Printing Gothic. Date1817, contents----HYMNS --composed by Rev. William Fawcett and yes he composed them at the old hall. It was in his preface to the book ,my copy being a reprint of a much earlier one.The book had belonged to one Abraham Nuttall and his wife. It did make me wonder if the hymns had been composed actually in the dining room of the old hall!!!!I bought the book of course. Viktoria.
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Pippakit
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Mary Jane Brewer with Gwendoline
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My great grandfather's brother Henry was killed by lightning in Heswall church during a harvest festival service in 1875.
I googled the relevant words, and came across a mention of ghostly organ music which can still apparently be heard on stormy nights, and perhaps even the figure of a boy in the churchyard......for what it's worth  http://www.rootschat.com/links/06we/ Cheers, China
Thank you for that Chinakay, I hadn't heard that before!
Poor Henry, wandering round the churchyard, I wonder what he was looking for.
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Rathbone - Wirral
Ruscoe - Chester/South Cheshire
Williams - Storeton/Pensby
Warhurst - Manchester
Brewer - Liskeard (Cornwall)/Witheridge (Devon)
Hambly - St Pinnock
Tregenza - St Mewan/Pensilva
Trevethan - Kenwyn/St Pinnock
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Nick29
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Posts: 2920
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My grandmother's step-father fell into a pond and drowned. We suspect that he may have had a few too many in the pub ! 
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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sharmar
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Grandad Woodvine
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How about a 3 month old baby being struck by lightening while in the arms of her grandmother!. Grandmother survived.
This was my great grandmother and by grandfathers baby sister.
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Harris(Madeley), Harris(Ironbridge) Woodvine (Dawley & anywhere else), Britton (Broseley), Hoof (Wombridge, Dawley, Shifnal), Perry (Dawley & Wellington, Deakin (Wellington), Humphries (Wombridge & Dawley), Underwood (Hinkshay) Davies (Grinshall area), Buckley (Madeley) Hamphlett (various spellings Madeley).
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Magrat
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Ada Radcliffe
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Hi,
My gggrandfather 'choked on his pudding (compaction of food)'. When I got this cert. my husband commented that at least he had had time to enjoy his first course.
Magrat
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Census Information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukCoates,Radcliffe, Bates, Ford, Wooldridge, Draycott, Cooper, Brandish, Munro, Jago, Baker, Dibble, Williams, Coward, Moule, Storey, French, Jacklin Lancashire, Staffordshire, Essex, London, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Surrey |
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Kevinshouse
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Posts: 716
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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When I went to collect a certificate from our local Registry Office, the Registrar who is very interested in family history (I know her quite well now) showed me a register from the 1850s. Entered on one page were about 8 people from the local Asylum - one a child of 8 years had died of worm infestation. Apparently the people registered had died of various complaints and had died over the previous few weeks, but were registered in a block when the person in charge came into town. I found this all very interesting and also very, very sad.
Kind regards Susan
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will-o-wisp
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Whilst not an unusual cause of death - I wonder if any 'chatters' can explain the cause of death I found on a 1905 death certificate for a 6 month old baby:-
Spinal caries
Psoas abscess
Marasmus.
Could this possibly have been what we now know as Spina Bifida?
Will-o-Wisp
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kennyg
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Meikles, Watsons, McGregors and Bairds
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Description of 4 XGGrandfather's suicide;
"4th January 1871, 5 pm, The Mine Plantation, Abercorn
Cause of Death: Haemorrhage from a cut on the throat inflicted by the deceased himself with a razor – death was immediate
Age:68"
End of the first working day of the New Year - given his age, wonder if he had just been made redundant?
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Nick29
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Whilst not an unusual cause of death - I wonder if any 'chatters' can explain the cause of death I found on a 1905 death certificate for a 6 month old baby:-
Spinal caries
Psoas abscess
Marasmus.
Could this possibly have been what we now know as Spina Bifida?
Will-o-Wisp
Could be, or it could be the symptoms of inherited syphilis.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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julianb
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1440
Portrait of the genealogist as a young man
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My great grandfather Henry Carter was found dead in water in a ditch. The night before had been foggy; it is hard to tell whether he had just fallen, had drunk too much and fallen, or had been mugged - he had money to buy a new horse when he went out the previous day and no money was found on him, nor was traces of alcohol mentioned at his inquest by the police. So I tend to think that someone got away with not so much murder but manslaughter.
But that story is just the entree to my "unnatural causes of death" entry.
Henry's younger brother William was working as a house servant at a farm, and for some reason had gone into one of the barns and got involved in a prank with two of the farm-hands and ended up suffocating in a very large bag of flour. He was just 18. 
JULIAN
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