<<some U.S. families were fortunate in having their children survive the many diseases which were prevalent before the advent of penicillin >> I would add: and before the advent of vaccinations against common childhood diseases. Even recently (e.g. 100 years ago) an epidemic of a common disease such as measles which most of us nowadays regard as a trivial illness would pick off substantial numbers of children. Tuberculosis was a common killer, now largely defeated by antibiotics except in certain special patient populations which have bred resistant strains. Cram a bunch of people into an emigrant boat so that they are almost sleeping on top of each other for a few weeks, add one person coughing TB bacilli and bingo! ten other travellers will be coughing a couple of months later and will wonder where they got it from. At least two of my ancestors died of tuberculosis at the beginning of the 20th century. Meningitis, once it appeared in a high-density community would spread rapidly and kill or permanently brain-damage most of its victims. One of my great-uncles died of meningitis in Massachusetts. He was a prison warder, an ideal environment for picking up the disease. And so on and so forth. Pádraig (the Paddy that was) -----Original Message----- From: irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-clare-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Carberry Sent: 14 September 2006 14:33 To: irl-clare@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Daniel O'Neil, b.c. 1828 Kilkishen, d. 1886 NYC The cemeterly listing is posted immediately after the heading referring to the Old Calvary Cemetery book. I then left a space and followed the family in the U.S. censuses. I always go forward and backward a page or two when I view an online census page, in order to pick up more Clare-born. In this instance I instead saw the brothel listed, which may well have been in the same building as the family. As to children dying young, some U.S. families were fortunate in having their children survive the many diseases which were prevalent before the advent of penicillin. I have a set of ggrandparents who lived on an upstate farm (Kingston NY), both resident in this country for over 20 years at the time of their early 1880s marriage, were healthy (I visited this ggmother until her death in 1957) and adept in childraising, yet they lost the middle three babies of their 9 children due to various illnesses. Sharon C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pádraig Mór Ó Gealagain" <padraigogealagain@rogers.com> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Daniel O'Neil, b.c. 1828 Kilkishen, d. 1886 NYC > Hi Sharon, from you knowledge and experience the second item below list is > very thought provoking - it looks more like an entry from a census return. > The entry about the prostitutes residence is unusual. I can't even speculate > on why it is in the book, and the very young children who died - was there a > cholera outbreak or other epidemic raging in N.Y.C at the time? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharon Carberry" <sm8carberry@comcast.net> > To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:33 AM > Subject: [IRL-CLARE] Daniel O'Neil, b.c. 1828 Kilkishen, d. 1886 NYC > > > > Old Calvary Cemetery, p. 83 [of the book, see below] > > Headstone #1111 > > O'Neil > > [by] Margaret [for] husband Daniel d. 20 Mar 1886 age 58 > > native of Kilkishen, Clare > > his granddaughter Catherine Mullane age 6 mo. > > > > > > 1870 NY New York Co. [Manhattan], 4th Ward > > O'Neil > > Daniel 40 Ire longshoreman > > Margareth 37 Ire > > Mary 18 Ire bookfolder > > Bartholomew 14 NY appr bookbinder > > Paul 11 > > Dennis 8 > > Daniel 5 > > James 2 > > > > 4 housing units away from a "house of ill fame" > > Anna Quirk 28 Ire as head > > 4 prostitutes, ages 19 to 23, three of whom b. Ire > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message