Epidemic in Northampton 1854?

[PrawnCocktail]

On the GRO site, Edwin George is given as age 6, and there's a George E Morgan aged 6 buried in St Peter's on 10 Nov 1854

[seahall]

He is being baptised as Edwin George in St Peters to Charles and Eliza about aged 4, Nov 1 1851 and noted on the 1851 as being 2.

Sorry I thought it was old fashioned 8 on his burial record now see it is a 0 as 8 below is on
it's side .

Sandy

[Newfloridian]

Hmmm! I'm always very wary of coincidences in family history but this is certainly one of them

Many thanks for sorting that one out

Alan

[Newfloridian]

I posted this thread four years ago having picked up an incident which appeared to have wiped out a family in Northampton in 1854. I am revisiting the family now as part of my examination of the Claypoles of Northamptonshire.

The first curiosity was that brother John and sister Frances Claypole married sister Hannah and brother Samuel Morgan within a year of each other in 1847. Frances had three children in fairly quick succession but then all four died within a few weeks - and all in St Katherine's Hospital.
 
I have now had sight of the relevant death certificates which are reported as follows:

All buried at All Saints Church

Mary Ann Morgan (3 years) October 22nd 1854: Scarlet fever  (took 8 days)
Marshall Morgan (4 years) October 28th 1854: Scarlet fever  (took 3 weeks)
John Morgan (13 months) October 31st 1854: Scarlet fever (took 7 days)
Frances Morgan (26 years) November 15th 1854: Typhus

Maybe Mgeneas may like to add these to her directory of Northamptonshire Epidemics.

Cheers Alan