Hello to all, I would like to thank everybody for their wonderful help with THIBOU & JARRATT families which I have managed to put together. Being interested in DNA from the genealogy perspective I am wondering about these two families Robert JARRATT who married Olivia GAMON (my side) and Robert he then married Sarah Inglefield THIBOU and here is why ........ Robert and Olivia had 8 registered children 6 died in infancy, 2 married one dying age 29 (possibly in childbirth) and one living to a good age but no children. Robert then marr Sara THIBOU and had 10 children 9 dying in infancy the tenth died at age 22 from complications to a back street abortion. At first I thought this was perhaps the result of childbirth in early days in Victoria 1853 - 1877 but got to wondering "through" the night maybe it was genetic. Such a sad story, Regards Toni

Hello Toni, It would be interesting to see if there were multiple child deaths in Robert's siblings or in the families of surviving siblings, or in his parent's families. A friend had several generations on the female line, where the boys all died very young, the girls survived and the same pattern in their families. That was a disease where the female was the carrier. But as your Robert married twice, the chances of two women being carriers seems a fairly remote chance, so it would have to be a different hereditary disease to the one afflicting my friend's family, and able to be transmitted by the male. I'm ignorant of hereditary diseases in general. Regards Ada Toni Evans wrote: > Hello to all, <snip> > Robert and Olivia had 8 registered children 6 died in infancy, > Robert then marr Sara THIBOU and had 10 children 9 dying in infancy > At first I thought this was perhaps the result of childbirth in early days in Victoria 1853 - 1877 but got to wondering "through" the night maybe it was genetic. > > Such a sad story,