One of my ancestors is an Isaac Oakley b 1824, m Sophia Roadnight 1845, d 7th May 1848. It was a marriage of only three years and produced one child, another Isaac who is my Gt Grandfather. What has intrigued me is that I have recently got his death certificate, and it states his cause of death as "decline 3 years" It is all a bit vague, but coincidentally 3 years was also the duration of the marriage. So smelling rats that might not have been detectable by forensic scientists in the mid 1800s, exactly what would be meant by decline? Is there any likelyhood of there being any other record of this event than the PRs and Death certs?

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:21:39 +0100 Reg Oakley <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Reg, > So smelling rats that might not have been detectable by forensic > scientists in the mid 1800s, exactly what would be meant by decline? At a guess, the death was not certified by a medical practitioner. This was often the case at that time, hence some of the more "fanciful" causes of death; 'Visitation from God' being one of them. Decline could just mean slowly becoming more ill/aged. The marriage and onset of the decline are probably coincidental, but one could hypothesise that the marriage was either a) causal [he was hen-pecked] or b) symptomatic [he knew his health was declining, so married someone, quickly]. Obviously, there is no way of knowing which, if any, of those is true. > Is there any likelyhood of there being any other record of this event > than the PRs and Death certs? Sadly, no. And the only people that do know are long since deceased. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" A friend of a friend he got beaten I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

Around 1881-1900 in Wing Bucks was postmaster named Roadknight who married a Newbury Yours truly, Arthur Newbury -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reg Oakley Sent: 27 October 2007 17:22 To: [email protected] Subject: [BKM] Oakley, Roadnight marriage in Cuddington.Mid 1800s. One of my ancestors is an Isaac Oakley b 1824, m Sophia Roadnight 1845, d 7th May 1848. It was a marriage of only three years and produced one child, another Isaac who is my Gt Grandfather. What has intrigued me is that I have recently got his death certificate, and it states his cause of death as "decline 3 years" It is all a bit vague, but coincidentally 3 years was also the duration of the marriage. So smelling rats that might not have been detectable by forensic scientists in the mid 1800s, exactly what would be meant by decline? Is there any likelyhood of there being any other record of this event than the PRs and Death certs? *************************************** BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ ------------------------------- 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