In a message dated 04/02/2008 15:18:09 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I also have several members of the same family at same address (Huddlestone Street) all dying in 1872. Does anyone know of an epidemic then? ______________________________________________________________________________ _____ As you probably know whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis were endemic. If a number of members of the same family all died at the same time from a disease, then it was usually due to the very poor living conditions, usually all the family living in one room. Stan