It's always a tough one. Others have already commented. I know that Cholera and Typhoid Fever could knock down a whole parish in those days. But I'm just guessing. Unfortunately, a lot of the "informants" on death certificates also guess at the cause of death. If you want certainty, you'd have to have a forensic exam of the body. My wife used to work for a pathologist who had been a medical examiner for 20-odd years, and this doctor told me once "Never believe what people tell you is the cause of death. You have to examine them." Wikipedia tells me that 3 to 5 million people a year are infected by Cholera even these days. Sorry I couldn't quote a source for you. Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Wilson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:47:22 AM Subject: Re: [LIN] Admin. Note: Early 1800s Hi Lou, your exclamations of the situation in Northern England and Lincolnshire in particular are quite something, but I cannot even find out what inflection attacked Langtoft, to cause the death of 4 of my relatives who were born there in the year 1852, from February to November. Bazza On 28 May 2014 22:39, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Missing Lincs, > > Yes, this is my new e-mail address. It is, so far, DMARC-proof, so my > LINCSGEN mail gets delivered to me here. > > I saw on another list that someone wondered why so many people moved > about the country in the early 1800s. Well, they didn't have smart phones, > apparently, so I guess they couldn't get all the answers by staying home! > Sorry, those of us who have followed a smart-phone user in the grocery > store know about the urge to smash a smart-phone between two cans of beans. > :-) > > No, the early 1800s were an interesting time. Blockades were used to > cut off supplies to Napoleon, and the blockades cut the supply of some > markets to our ancestors in Lincolnshire, too. When they were lifted about > 1815, suddenly we had an influx of cheap goods, and unemployed soldiers and > sailors. The "Irish Potato Famine" in 1840, also affected potato growers > in northern England and we had another influx of Irish labourers. The > first steam engine for commercial use was developed by James WATT in 1781 > and began to be widely used for farming, industry, draining the fens, etc. > One of my ancestors apparently was fascinated by the steam engine and > learned to drive a steam tractor. From there he got a job driving a steam > engine on the railroads, another new presence in the early 1800s. > > So we had a lot going on in northern England and it was a time for > some people to take advantage of the new jobs, others lost their jobs doue > to industrialization. The Luddites burned a lot of frame-work knitting > machines, even the ones run by hand or horsepower. There was some social > unrest because of ideas that had been around since the French and American > Revolutions and the government was committed to the idea of "one man, one > vote", which was new and dangerous in the eyes of some. Civil Registration > came along, an obvious plot by the government to many folk and a lot of > parish boundaries were "adjusted" to include areas that were outside their > boundaries. > > The first steamship was built in 1837 (the SS Sirius), which began > reliable service over the oceans. > > They must have been heady times. You could move somewhere else where > pay was better. You could take your trade somewhere where it was needed. > You could go to one of the new countreis were land was free (or at least > cheap), and own your own farm. Wow! It's actually a wonder more of them > didn't go. > > Lou (list admin.) > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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