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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
Leicester / Northampton: Craxford, Claypole, Pridmore, Pollard, Tansley, Crane, Tilley
Derby: Naylor, Ball, Haywood
Buckinghamshire: Cook
London: Craxford, Lane Crauford
Tyneside: Nessworthy, Simpson
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