There are three brothers on one of my lines who are all given as being crippled. They were born between 1838 and 1844, all illegitimate but I think with the same father. None of them married. None of them had skilled jobs. They're given as labourers. The middle brother was noted as being crippled from birth. They died aged 68, 33 and 33. I don't have any death certs as yet but I'm wondering what kind of condition the three boys had, perhaps hereditary. Anyone any ideas/thoughts? -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/

What sad cases. Perhaps one was crippled at birth. and the other two were in an accident, or had rickets. Doesn't seem reasonable that these were all heredity. Very strange. Edna - Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <[email protected]> To: "B+D List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 7:46 PM Subject: [B&D] Medical question There are three brothers on one of my lines who are all given as being crippled. They were born between 1838 and 1844, all illegitimate but I think with the same father. None of them married. None of them had skilled jobs. They're given as labourers. The middle brother was noted as being crippled from birth. They died aged 68, 33 and 33. I don't have any death certs as yet but I'm wondering what kind of condition the three boys had, perhaps hereditary. Anyone any ideas/thoughts? -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You may get an informed answer from the Rootsweb Medical list. I had some very interesting replieswhen I was investigating the likelihood of two Deaf and Dumb people in the same village being related. Kind regards Joy  > Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 00:46:41 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [B&D] Medical question > > There are three brothers on one of my lines who are all given as being > crippled. They were born between 1838 and 1844, all illegitimate but > I think with the same father. None of them married. None of them had > skilled jobs. They're given as labourers. The middle brother was > noted as being crippled from birth. > > They died aged 68, 33 and 33. I don't have any death certs as yet but > I'm wondering what kind of condition the three boys had, perhaps > hereditary. > > Anyone any ideas/thoughts? > > -- > Charani (UK) > OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM > Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM > http://wsom-opc.org.uk > http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Joy Hungerford wrote: > You may get an informed answer from the Rootsweb Medical list. I > had some very interesting replies when I was investigating the > likelihood of two Deaf and Dumb people in the same village being > related. Thank you for that suggestion. I'll give that a try and see what responses I get :)) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/

Charani wrote: > There are three brothers on one of my lines who are all given as being > crippled. They were born between 1838 and 1844, all illegitimate but > I think with the same father. None of them married. None of them had > skilled jobs. They're given as labourers. The middle brother was > noted as being crippled from birth. > > They died aged 68, 33 and 33. I was given the brothers death certificates for Christmas, along with their mother's. The eldest brother, Charles, was a brewer's labourer and his cause of death was given as rheumatism and morbus cordis. Rheumatism can definitely be crippling. The middle brother, Francis, was given as a wood turner by his sister who was the informant for the deaths of all three of her brothers. His cause of death phthisis pulmonalis 15 months, diarrhoer [sic] 14 days. The youngest brother, John, was also a brewer's labourer. His cause of death was similar to Francis' in that it was phthisis 1 year 6 months, syncope 3 hours. Death must have been a merciful release for all three. CoD for their mother (my gt gt grandmother) was fatty degeneration of the heart some years, disease of the coronary artery, syncope 50 minutes. She was 54. I guess I'll have to watch my health since my father died, age 50, of a similar cause as my gt gt grandmother who was not either of his grandmothers. No more Christmas excess! :)) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/