Causes of Death for Gordon Watts and his wife Mary, One Day apart?

[josey]

Have you tried to find out if t here were any epidemics in the area that year? [Google, newspapers etc?]

[*Sandra*]

Checked epidemics for Canada - Typhus was 1847 - 1848 - nothing listed on this list prior to that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

Sandra

Added - In 1831 (9 years earalier) more than 50,000 people immigrated to Quebec. The next year brought 52,000 individuals and with them the Asiatic cholera, and within five months 4,200 deaths resulted.

[Les de B]

Thanks Sandra and Jossey

I can't find any anything further about epidemics for around this period other than what Sandra has already mentioned. I did check Quebec Coroners Reports for 1840, and although Gordon and Mary were not mentioned, looking at other deaths around that time, there was nothing to indicate anything about an epidemic sickness being a cause of death, just the general accidents, drownings, falls, heart etc,

I'm wondering if the Quebec link you supplied is for Quebec Province or City, as they died in Montreal? The Province would cover Montreal.

Thanks Sandra for those records you posted, but as you indicated, I was aware of those - nice thought anyway. The Robert Nugent WATTS you mentioned was Gordon's brother, both being born on Jersey with the rest of their siblings - "Nugent" being their mother's maiden name.

Les