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Kincardineshire / Townhead Fettercairn Kincardine
« on: Wednesday 07 April 10 10:00 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone tell me where Townhead is/was? My great grandfather died there in 1931.

I've pored over the Ordnance Survey maps but haven't seen it on a modern map.

This is the Townhead in/near Fettercairn not near Arbuthnott as "Townhead Fettercairn" is written explicitly on the death certificate.

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Kincardineshire / Deciphering cause of death
« on: Saturday 16 September 06 22:11 BST (UK)  »
Posting this in the Kincardine section because my great aunt died in Bervie and maybe someone knows the registrar's handwriting?!

I've been fairly lucky in reading old certificates but this one has me stymied.

It's from my great aunt's death certificate and she died 6 days after the birth of her 10th child.

What I can read looks like "puerperal to__tonitis". So it's something postpartum related. I've tried to Google but nothing showed up. One of her younger sisters died at the age of 22, thirteen years earlier, of "puerperal insanity". Quite sad.

Any good eyes out there?

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