Genealogy Chat

dying on the job? said a young woman about her new [old] husband when asked by the coroner to discribe how he died.Well sir we got undressed on our wedding night ,jumped into bed,and made love when all of a sudden he went ohhhhh oohhhhh,i thought he was coming ,but he must have been going.fred.ptfg.

should have mentioned as well - poor little Princess lived in Pontefract - where the liquorice is from - wonder if there was a connection

Teeth - gum infections can cause blood poisoning. Best death I have had so far is 'fell out of bed', but the ones I have read are much more interesting

hi Pat . I nearly got flung out of a registrars office for bursting out laughing when I got a death cert for poor little great aunt Princess May Gage Evans, who was only 4. well they had written daires, dhyereo, and a couple of other attempts then crossed it out and put loose bowels. - well I thought it was funny.

wasnt Ptomaine a pharoah in egypt heheheheh

Sometimes I take a break from the tips and records board in case some people over on the general board have a joke or two going. But I have to say I havent laughed so much in years, Well I think you should keep this thread going its the best thing I have seen here. Although I have checked these boards a long time before joining in I have never seen anything so funny. Brilliant stuff, thank you all for making me laugh so much I nearly lost my teeth in me Guinness>>> GREAT Stuff!!! Love Pat x

i know marion - with using scotlands people site a lot you get 3 death certs for the price of one so to speak - a buy one get 2 free lol - some of the causes of death they put on the certs are hilarious - but there were a lot of the dentition ones one I saw had cause of death - a bleeder - not very nice was it lol but I really think they meant haemophelia but couldnt spell it.

dying of teeth - was dentition - usually small children having multiple teeth coming through at once and it being too much for them and causing convulsions then death :-( One of our rellies died of TABES DORSALIS - probably caused by the effects of an injury 15 yrs previously - and then I discovered it was a social disease!! My Gt gt Grandfather was found dead in the street one morning - cause of death - apparantley apoplexy!!!!

I hope they dont look at this board then

I think the horse had griping in the guts and was vomiting because he too had eaten a portion of a meat pie.

LOL Stop it before I rupture something too. Maybe the horse that ran over her bit her on the butt, and she had wind causing the horse to bounce of the wall and smack her in the gob!

Seriously, I can only think that "teeth" as a cause of death - unless they were a crocodile's and it bit you with them - must mean some kind of infection in the tooth which got into the bloodstream in those pre-antibiotic days. nell

Dont mind me, still chuckling over Nells contribution, but would somebody please explain how you can die of teeth?

Marion Are you accusing me of something heinous? Just because my gt gt uncle slit someone's throat, doesn't mean you can point the finger at me. nell (its quicker to type than Helen)

Ah thank you Marion, now I'm much less confused and can go to bed happy (but still lethargic and with teeth etc). Brilliant, another mystery solved as well! Maz, now I know who you are too! But I'd heard of Phillack, was just confused at change from Maz to Marie-Anne!

The one I found amusing was MARASMUS It is usually infants and means failure to thrive.

Marion I've got teeth, I've got wind, I've got a sore leg, and I've forgotten the other one, oh yes lethargy, always got that LOL. And I'm still me too, but I sent a thank you to Nell yesterday and it said I'd already emailed her so that's why I thought she might have been someone else before. Am rambling so must go to bed, then maybe I won't have the lethargy tomorrow :)

Lights is another name for lungs and in animals they are part of the giblets.

Marion, reckon I've got 4 too - thankfully not the worms though LOL

Nell, totally off topic but loads of people seem to have changed their name while I was on holiday - were you Helen Evans of Hitchin before?