John Healey Taylor’s “Invalid for Life” accident, in between 1891 and 1901

[TinaRoyal]

At long last I have received the Death Certificate for John Healey Taylor from the GRO.

John Healey Taylor died of “Chronic Pneumonia”, “Phthisis”, which is Tuberculosis, apparently he was asthmatic and suffered from “Gangrene of the Lungs”.  So you were all right, there was no accident, he succumbed to an illness of the day TB, among other things.

John Healey Taylor was registered as John Taylor at his birth in 1861.  At his baptism in November 1861 he was baptised John Healey Taylor, no doubt after his mother Elizabeth Healey.  His middle name never stuck, and in all the Census’s from 1871 to 1901, on his Marriage Certificate and on his Death Certificate, he is recorded as John Taylor.  In the Family however, he has always been known as John Healey Taylor.

Thank you all for your help in clearing up this mystery.  The answer was in the Death Certificate as was suggested.

[heywood]

Thank you.
Poor John. Sadly, it was so common.

[rosie99]

Thank you for the update.  .  Glad it answered your query.

[Maiden Stone]

"Stop Kissing and Steaming!: tuberculosis and the occupational health movement in Massachsetts and Lancashire 1870-1918" Cambridge University Press 2005
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21552481/
+ list of associated articles, including several studies written by D. Fishwick & others on the topic of diseases of Lancashire cotton workers.
Robert Koch, Nobel Prize 1905, identified the bacillus which causes TB in 1882.

John Taylor probably began working in a mill when he was a child.
 1874 Factories Act raised minimum working age to 9.
 "Key dates in working conditions, Factory Acts Great Britain 1300-1899"
www.thepotteries.org/dates/work.htm