Up. Nooks Clitheroe

[heywood]

I think it could well be a squashed lower case 'br'.

He might have been visiting not living there. Did he leave a will?

[lancsann]

perhaps if you give us the name and age of the deceased someone may be able to help further

[Pennines]

Heywood -- just screwed my eyes up -- and I saw where you are coming from with the lower case 'br'! As Up Nooks doesn't seem to have existed and the other suggestion does - then I suspect it must be that.

The deceased was a 'mechanic' -- maybe he had been fixing a machine at the mill mentioned by Mike! (I am making things up to fit the circumstances now!)

Radcliff -- only just spotted your message - sorry. This man was RC - and I haven't found a burial record for him -- also it was too early for the Public Cemetery records.

Thank you everyone.

[heywood]

I don't want to pry but does the cause of death fit. I mean was it an illness which would need nursing or was it sudden - as in fixing a machine and then .... 

[sarah]

perhaps if you give us the name and age of the deceased someone may be able to help further

Hi Pennine,

It would help if we knew the name of the "deceased"

Regards

Sarah

[Pennines]

Heywood you are not prying -- Sarah it's not actually my ancestor -- I'm helping someone else (or trying to) - so in view of the cause of death I had better not mention the name.

The cause of death was 'Disease of the Liver - Not Certified'. You would have thought he would have needed nursing if that was the case.
Hence it wasn't an accident - but perhaps he and his second wife had split up - hence he scarpered from Blackburn and drowned his sorrows at an excessive rate! Or they split up because he kept drowning his sorrows beforehand. There is nothing in the newspapers so he didn't get in trouble as far as I know.

[lancsann]

Sorry rereading my post asking the name did sound a bit abrupt. I did not mean to.

I had a look at old medical terms and it seems disease of the liver could also mean dropsy rather than being alcohol related. Today it would probably have been described as oedema

[mosiefish]

If I have got the right man I don`t think they split up, but moved to Clitheroe for a couple of years until he died.  If you check Lancashirebmd a daughters birth was registered 1845.  Her death was registered in Blackburn 1847.

Mo

[Pennines]

Lancsann -- I didn't take it as an abrupt question honestly. That is useful information to know about liver disease.

 Mo -- or should I say Agatha Christie! You have got the right man - he had a rough time. He had 3 children with his first wife -- 1 died in infancy and his wife died shortly after giving birth to the 3rd child - the 3rd child then died 2 years later. All this occurring within about 6 years.
He remarried -- had 3 children with the second wife - one died and, as you say  another then died (but after he died). Not a happy story unfortunately.

I do admit I thought he had taken to the bottle when I saw the cause of death, but maybe I'm misjudging him.

Many, many thanks for all your help and suggestions.

(So I got the name of the Clitheroe place wrong AND probably the cause of death-- just shows how useful other Rootschatters can be!)