1840's cholera

[kerszk]

Hello

I was wondering if anyone knew any details about cholera in the 1840's and whether it affected the Derbyshire area.

I have been looking for a husband and wife on the census and can find them with their children in 1841 but in the 1851 census the children have left home and are working as servants. The children are ages 16, 14 and 11. Their oldest child is aslo missing.    The only thing i can put it down to is that the parents have died.
I would appreciate any thoughts.
kerszk

[spendlove]

Hi,

The following site gives a back ground to various epidemics, none specifically connected to Derbyshire:-

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html.

Have you searched for the deaths of the people you are looking for:-

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Spendlove

[kerszk]

Thanks for the website spendlove I will take a look. I have searched for them on freebmd .
The family is James Copestake(1791) and his wife Hannah Hough(1803). I can't find either of them after the 1841 census or a son Joseph (1832). They had 4 other children James, George, William and Sarah which are working as servants in the 1951 census. They were all born in Bradley Derbyshire. The fact that the children have all been separated makes me think the others may have died.
Thanks again Kerszk

[sunflower]

Hi Kerszk

This looks like their burials

Bradley, Derbyshire

James Copestake buried 10 Jan 1843 aged 52
Hannah Copestake buried 23 Oct 1841 aged 39

Carol

[kerszk]

Thank you very much for the information. I really appreciate your help.
I have been hunting for a while.

How were you able to get this information? Is there somewhere else I could have looked? I have ancestry but found there were to many people with the same name.
Thanks again Kerszk

[sunflower]

Hi

The information came from a burial index I have.   There are quite a few Copestake's buried in Bradley.   I will send you a PM.

Carol

[spendlove]

Hi Kerszk,

Think these are the Death Registrations on Free BMD:-

Hannah Copestake December Q 1841 Ashbourne  19 259

James COPESTICK  March  Q 1843   Ashbourne 19  311

Spendlove

[pathar505]

Good afternoon
I have noticed during my many years of research in Derbyshire that a lot of church registers record  more than their usual number of burials in the mid 1840s and quite often there are more than one member of the same family buried within a few weeks of each other.
Of course. I suppose it may not have been cholera - it could have been measles ,TB, Influenza or some other contagious disease .
Pathar505