Just looked up the article you referred to :) Ouch !
Just looked up Fournier's Gangrene, the images are shocking :o. Do not look if you are delicate or male !!!QuoteWill take your word for it
Females and especially female children were more likely to be burned in a home setting because of the clothing they wore at the time.Do not forget young male children wore very similar dresses to their sisters in the past and many men wore smocks
A great-uncle of mine worked in a warehouse which received tea chests from India. He scratched his hand on the tin edging of one of these chests and developed severe blood poisoning, from which he died, there being no treatment available to save him at that time (1910).
The daughter of Thomas Cook, the travel pioneer, died in her bath. Not by drowning and not of natural causes, but of (presumably) carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a faulty boiler. A boiler which, incidently, was fairly new and which the Cook family wouldn't have owned had not Thomas been the successful businessman that he was. :'(
I have a relative who cut her throat with a razor 13 days after giving birth (1905)
A great-uncle of mine worked in a warehouse which received tea chests from India. He scratched his hand on the tin edging of one of these chests and developed severe blood poisoning, from which he died, there being no treatment available to save him at that time (1910).
One of my uncles died as a child in a similar way in 1919. He was stung by a scorpion and developed incurable blood poisoning.
Ok.... Its just that my grandmother and great grandmother died that way too.This is usually heart attack or stroke. Or a burst aneurysm.
My grandmother said she felt ill and needed a coffee and when they came out of the kitchen she was dead.
Great grandmother just talking and boom.... Fell over dead.
As no autopsy was done, its been a bit of a family mystery.
Rather gruesome thread!
A friend of a friend was decapitated when she drove her car under a big truck.
"WORKMAN CREMATED ALIVE AT WARRENBY.
"At Redcar yesterday a fireman named John Stainthorpe (19), employed at Messrs Walker, Maynard, and Co.'s ironworks, Warrenby, met with a terrible death. He was coupling bogies full of molten slag to an engine when the engine was backed on to the bogies with such force that the molten slag splashed over the sides, and completely covered the unfortunate man. The flesh was stripped from off his bones, and the body presented a fearful spectacle..."
Very ironic. I'm surprised none of the newspapers have picked up this coincidence.
Death can be fatal!Its life changing
Skoosh.
Phthitis pulmonaris, for any who haven't come across it on a relative's death cert, is TB or consumption. It was a common illness in older times, sometimes because of living conditions, but could be a slow and miserable death, as Coombs' message shows. And it was infectious. :( It crops up on the death certs of several of my ag lab forebears.
James Inglis Hamilton, Colonel in the Scots Greys at Waterloo, led his regiment in that famous charge and had both arms cut off but still urged his mount on with the reins between his teeth until he was shot & brought down.
http://www.salsburghheritagegroup.co.uk/21.html
Skoosh.
If you mean the speed at which they remarried, it was a matter if survival. Men needed women to care for the children while he worked, women need men to support them and their children. No government dolling out benefits, only the workhouse if they had no other means of support.
I even know of people who had another wife lined up while their first wife was still alive if she was dying of a long illness.
I even know of people who had another wife lined up while their first wife was still alive if she was dying of a long illness.
"One of my ancestors died of "cancer of the vulva", which makes me cross my legs quite tightly".
It is something that you don't hear anything about, but a friend of mine has it.
Giggsy
My grandfathers nephew, Gibb McAughtrie, and many other relatives of mine, were involved in the Knockshinnoch Mining Disaster in the 1950's. (New Cumnock). Some of them did not survive, but Gibb was the first person to be brought to the surface during the rescue mission. Several miners died, including a number of my relatives who were involved in the drawn out rescue procedure. One of them, Andrew Houston, lead the rescue team. Another relative got the George medal! Both my grandparents were born in New Cumnock, so there were a lot of my relatives from both sides whose lives were lost, or they were seriously injured.My grandfather was a Procurator Fiscal and had to deal with the results of mining accidents. His bitter comment was that if you were to be killed, you should ensure you were killed in an accident with many deaths, because then there would be a big collection for your widow and the other widows.
I MAY have posted this link before? If not, there is plenty here to 'amuse' you ghoulish people! :othanks for this , was up till midnight reading it, and still only about quarter of the way through :)
Gloucester Inquests from Gloucester Journal 1722-1838.
http://www.genebug.net/glsinquests.htm
Giggsy
I MAY have posted this link before? If not, there is plenty here to 'amuse' you ghoulish people! :othanks for this , was up till midnight reading it, and still only about quarter of the way through :)
Gloucester Inquests from Gloucester Journal 1722-1838.
http://www.genebug.net/glsinquests.htm
Giggsy
fallingonabruise, that's fascinating! Wish I could find one for Lancashire areas! thank you.
My grandfathers nephew, Gibb McAughtrie, and many other relatives of mine, were involved in the Knockshinnoch Mining Disaster in the 1950's. (New Cumnock). Some of them did not survive, but Gibb was the first person to be brought to the surface during the rescue mission. Several miners died, including a number of my relatives who were involved in the drawn out rescue procedure. One of them, Andrew Houston, lead the rescue team. Another relative got the George medal! Both my grandparents were born in New Cumnock, so there were a lot of my relatives from both sides whose lives were lost, or they were seriously injured.My granddad William Bickerton was one of the rescued men,looks like your relative got him out!Again i have many relatives killed in the Ayrshire coalfields,so much that my Grandad and my mum wouldn't let me go down the pit.
I have a video of a film that was made about the rescue "The Brave Don't Cry", sent to me by a relative, I also have a book that was written about the Disaster, "Black Avalanche"!
https://newcumnockhistory.com/2015/09/14/knockshinnoch-the-rescued-men/
I would love to know who the poor man was to marry
My grandfathers nephew, Gibb McAughtrie, and many other relatives of mine, were involved in the Knockshinnoch Mining Disaster in the 1950's. (New Cumnock). Some of them did not survive, but Gibb was the first person to be brought to the surface during the rescue mission. Several miners died, including a number of my relatives who were involved in the drawn out rescue procedure. One of them, Andrew Houston, lead the rescue team. Another relative got the George medal! Both my grandparents were born in New Cumnock, so there were a lot of my relatives from both sides whose lives were lost, or they were seriously injured.My granddad William Bickerton was one of the rescued men,looks like your relative got him out!Again i have many relatives killed in the Ayrshire coalfields,so much that my Grandad and my mum wouldn't let me go down the pit.
I have a video of a film that was made about the rescue "The Brave Don't Cry", sent to me by a relative, I also have a book that was written about the Disaster, "Black Avalanche"!
https://newcumnockhistory.com/2015/09/14/knockshinnoch-the-rescued-men/
My wife's great aunt died as a young teenager after her nightie caught fire as she lent over the fire to hang up her Christmas stocking :(