Genealogy Chat

I have a great great uncle lost at sea 1922. Stuck on finding out more about that.

One of my Direct Ancestors - in the 1850's........

......he got hit by a carriage on London Bridge !

I'd guess that he'd had a couple of drinks that day.

Christine, you just beat me to it! My ggg grandma died of the same.

I've also got "death from drowning while mentally unstable" (i.e. suicide), and "crushed by a coal wagon which left the rails". Very sad.

Margaret

Phthisis, TB many of mine.

GGgrandfathers death cert ' Found dead in the road . A cartwheel having passed over him'.

How awful!

It is amazing how much emotion you feel when reading about ancestors isn't it.

My grtandmother died aged 42 of a ruptured uterus - this was whilst giving birth to her 14th child, who also died. My dad was number 11 in the family, and was 3 when his mum died.

Have a death cert for grt grandfather who was a London Dock Worker he died in 1907 from"injuries caused by a 9 tonne crane falling on him" died later in hospital

Mary, yes he was a stuff warehouse boy at a worsted weavers

Ill try to find a very old, very long thread on this subject

Thanks for the insight into puerperal mania, I had googled it etc, and found more references to puerperal sepsis which I guess is the more common post-labour infections. I am interested in the article you mention about the actual mania symptoms though. I too wondered if the death was as a result of the "treatment" !

Philip, stuff often meant "cloth", so he may have been killed by having bales of cloth fall on him.

I saw one that was a warehouseman that was killed by "falling stuff" !

GC girl. Be prepared to cry if you do. My baby cert said, death from "pneumonia and severe exhaustion over several weeks". l think about her everytime I see her name on the tree.

Just googled the p.mania. There´s an amazing account written in 1840 about the treatment, symptoms etc. includes, melancholia, restlessness, suspiciousness, appears in 1 out of 4 first births. etc. for treatment they used Aconite (which is poisionous unless in homoeopathic dosages - my words) or Opium which they recommend being given in LARGE DOSES. I bet a few of those poor women were actually poisioned.

How awful Shirley but I believe it was a common cause of death at that time.

i received a cert today for whom i was hoping was grtx 6 grandfather born 1791 died between 1841 and 1851 census.

Was instead for the 2 MONTH old illegitimate son of one of his daughters with the same name as grandad and little mite died of Syphilis!!!


Shirley

just did a search too on the informant to find was the governor of the St Peter Maldon Workhouse. Essex,so poor liitle lad was probably born illegitimate in the workhouse and died there aged two months .going to get the birth cert now as its got a gro ref

My Grandmother died shortly after giving birth in 1945 and the baby died a few days later. Wonder if it would be worth getting the death certificates?

Karen, your poor ggg.dad. It is possible that he was suffering from undiagnosed diabetes which could reduce the blood flow to the scrotum thus causing gangrene. I´m not sure when diabetes was first recognized.

Eileen, I´m sure you are right about the pueperal mania. Poor girl. I remember that doctor, (well reading about him!) everyone thought he was crazy washing his hands, but the survival rate of his mothers was amazing. I think he was booted out of practice for doing this.

No, although I did discover that three of my grandfather's sisters died of breast cancer, and in another line of the family, all the women died young of childbirth (in their 20s, 30s or early 40s).