Thank you for the information. I also received the following message from the Haukipudan Minicipal Office: Hello and greetings from Haukipudas! First of all I apologize that I haven't answered earlier. Times are very busy nowadays and it seems to me that they are still getting busier - and I haven't known the right words in english. Now finally I studied dictionaries and found out the deseases that might have caused the deaths of people. Especially in the 1750's and 1760's hunger, smallpox, measels and whooping cough killed people. Propably these caused a lot of deaths also little earlier in 1740's. Kirsti Lehtinen Haukiputaan kunta, PL 14, 90831 HAUKIPUDAS Thank you also, to the other responses to my question. The answers all seem to be that desease and famine possibly caused by or aggravated by the war is the likely cause of all of these deaths. Thanks everyone. -- Terry Maunu E-mail: terrymaunu@home.com Web: www.geocities.com/terrymaunu/ "Pekka Valta" <pekka.valta@sunpoint.net> wrote in message news:8pfbdo$8pi5$1@learnet.freenet.hut.fi... > First in Sweden 1736 and then in Finland started a period of high rates of > mortality with a peak in 1740 and 1742. Aque (the shivers) is a general > description of diseases circulating in many waves. A war between Russia and > Sweden was formally closed with a treaty undersigned in town Turku 1743 and > there had been a lot of civil population and military troops' relocation in > Finland before that. No wonder why diseases spread. > > regards > Pekka Valta > > "Claes Stillbäck" <claess@beta.telenordia.se> wrote in message > news:39BA2886.98220851@beta.telenordia.se... > > Just a thought! But maybe it is the plague. MORT BLEU in french Pest på > svenska > > Det är bara något som slog mig! > > > > Hälsar Claes > > > > "Terence D. Maunu" wrote: > > > > > When searching for ancestors in Haukipudas Church Records, Nederkiiming, > > > Oulu, Finland I noticed numerous deaths in 1743. Many members of same > > > families were buried on same date or a few days apart. Many different > > > family names listed. Does anyone know what happened to cause these > deaths?? > > > > > > -- > > > Terry Maunu > > > > > > E-mail: terrymaunu@home.com > > > Web: www.geocities.com/terrymaunu/ > > > >