Hi, Please - ONLY put his cause of death - as it is shown on his Death Certificate - don't make guesses. If the cause was Cholera - that would have been stated. Purpura/Haemorrhage - is caused by Many reasons - don't change history with a guess. Whenever doing any research - No guesses - they could be wrong - only information that is stated on documents. Cheers, Stella At 11:13 PM 07/02/2010, SBS Engineers Genealogy wrote: >Hi List > >I have a great-great grandfather Thomas Briggs (a blacksmith) who died >9th August 1854 in Blue Town (Sheerness). His death certificate says >cause of death 'purpura/haemorrhage'....after doing a lot of reading on >'purpura' and it's different causes - I think I will put his >haemorrhaging down to Cholera????? He was only 24yrs old and had been >married only 3 months - to the day (8th May 1854). He was buried 12th >August but don't know where. > >KInd regards >Ann Spiro >Perth, Western Australia >research@sbse.net.au >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blacksmiths/ >I have the surname BASKETT registered with GOONS >http://www.one-name.org/ >Rootsweb surname list for NUTTY. > >--------------------------------------- >Recent postings on the Kent list about hospital ships being used during >Cholera epidemics either to supplement or replace use of workhouses >during >epidemics trigger several questions. >Many Thanks Dick Fowler > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
HI Nothing has been changed, he is on the family tree as 'purpura/haemorrhage'. I have already done a large amount of research and as an RN I do understand more than some when reading. I did say ?cholera (question mark) but have listed other illness than can cause purpura. Regards Ann Spiro Perth, Western Australia research@sbse.net.au http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blacksmiths/ Hi, Please - ONLY put his cause of death - as it is shown on his Death Certificate - don't make guesses. If the cause was Cholera - that would have been stated. Purpura/Haemorrhage - is caused by Many reasons - don't change history with a guess. Whenever doing any research - No guesses - they could be wrong - only information that is stated on documents. Cheers, Stella At 11:13 PM 07/02/2010, SBS Engineers Genealogy wrote: >Hi List > >I have a great-great grandfather Thomas Briggs (a blacksmith) who died >9th August 1854 in Blue Town (Sheerness). His death certificate says >cause of death 'purpura/haemorrhage'....after doing a lot of reading on >'purpura' and it's different causes - I think I will put his >haemorrhaging down to Cholera????? He was only 24yrs old and had been >married only 3 months - to the day (8th May 1854). He was buried 12th >August but don't know where. > ge