Hi Helen, Are you an ice dancer? Paul ________________________________ From: Helen Weddell <helen.weddell@googlemail.com> To: hampshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 1:35:27 AM Subject: Re: [HAM] epidemics Thank you to Edna, Penny & Paul for your replies. I visited the website Edna sent and Paul referred to, so with Penny's information regarding a famine which would weaken the populations immunity to disease, it would be a reasonable assumption that they succumbed to Influenza. It's a shame there's no Death certs that early. Thanks again Helen icedancer@mail.com > You are right there doesn't seem to be any epidemics in the early part of > the century although I did find on a US site that there was a worldwide > influenza epidemic 1732-3. Of course the notation world wide may have meant > to mean that it wasn't just the U.S. so can't tell if it hit the U.K. as > well but presuming the travel between the two countries at the time it is > likely. > > I seem to have quite a few burials just prior to 1728 and wondered if > anyone > knew of reason; perhaps an epidemic or bad harvest. > For FREE online parish register transcriptions and other information visit  www.knightroots.co.uk. Please trim ALL messages to a minimum & remove the footer as this is added automatically at the end of all messages. Thanks To subscribe or unsubscribe please send a message to hampshire-request@rootsweb.com with the appropriate subject header.Thanks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HAMPSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message