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Re: What does Roc stand for? educate an aussie!
« Reply #18 on: Monday 27 March 06 21:19 BST (UK) »
she died 1/1/1886 aged 58yrs. of Vertigo and ?

Syncope, which the dictionary says is fainting through a fall in blood pressure. It's a common cause of death in 19th century death certificates
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Re: What does Roc stand for? educate an aussie!
« Reply #19 on: Monday 27 March 06 21:30 BST (UK) »
A Google for Limekilns gets many hits including this rather odd one:
http://www.limekilns2.freeserve.co.uk/limekilns/main.htm

Not so odd, really. Lime had two main uses: for spreading on the land to improve fertility, and for making traditional mortar. The village of Limekilns exists because there is an important outcrop of limestone there, which was worked for hundreds of years. There are lots of other lime kilns all over the place, where lime could be worked and often at the coast, where it could easily be transported by sea to wherever it was needed.

See www.scotlime.org if you want to know more about traditional lime mortar. Charlestown, where the workshops are, is right next to Limekilns.
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Re: What does Roc stand for? educate an aussie!
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 00:13 BST (UK) »
Hi Forfarian,

Slight misunderstanding  ;)   My use of the word "odd" in no way referred either to the name Limekilns or to the well-known uses of lime!  It related to the webpage itself - most notably its concentration on body-snatching!

As it happens, just recently we've had a discussion of lime on another thread - I guess you didn't notice it:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,142717.msg645166

On that thread, I gave the following reference:
http://www.slaidburn.org.uk/lime-burning.htm

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JAP