You have highlighted that people on average now live longer as opposed to our ancestors who had to live often without the expertise we have now; puerperal fever as with rickets I mentioned before doesn't happen as often now as it did then. I've got certificates where the mother of a child died a few days after the child was born and appears on the same death certificate. There's another statistic that we chose not to consider and that is cancer related deaths which catch people at any age and where ever they live. I have at least 2 or 3 of those in my certificate records; one that had cancer on the face. Women married earlier, on average, I think we would find. No birth control, they married the man who fathered their children, in most cases, or married someone else. My mother and my grandmother had a child aged 23 and had no more. If you work out an average age when a woman might start a family, I think we are seeing here that women go on to have children much older. Having married again when I was very young, my mother she married a Welshman and they returned to Wales when my s/father was made redundant. My mother died of cancer in 1992 aged 74. One would think that living in Wales as opposed to living in the suburbs of London would be a healthier life style but it is a statistic where she went to live that many there die of bowel cancer. It is all in the genes no matter where we live. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "MF" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Earliest born grandparent : Margaret : : You hit on another point of interest : : The following is the current set of statistics for MullFamilies (database of : just over 18,000) : : Note that average lifespan is under 50

Janet, You seem to be referring mostly to people who lived in England/Scotland. My highland ancestors did not live in cities but endured the whims of nature. My one set of ggg grandparents, one born 1725, lived to 1824, and his wife, born 1739 lived to 1830, contrary to your theories, and, also, . another gtgtgt grandfather, born 1729, fought at Quebec City 1759, died 1820. My gt gt grandfather Cameron, unfortunately, was killed by a falling tree while he was completing his log cabin in 1809 in the bush. My father's brother was born 1883 and died 1981 I will not make it, but many of my ancestors lived long lives even in the 1700s, 1800s, etc. Heredity is a deciding factor in longevity, but with, also, the threat of disease being ever something to consider, but, perhaps, city living is 'dangerous' to the health. My great grandfather, Lachlan MacLean, born August 8, 1826, Isle of Mull, died August 19, 1904., buried Finch Cemetery, Ontario, at a rather young age for my family. Margaret . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Earliest born grandparent > You have highlighted that people on average now live longer as opposed to our ancestors who had to live often without the expertise we have now; puerperal fever as with rickets I mentioned before doesn't happen as often now as it did then. I've got certificates where the mother of a child died a few days after the child was born and appears on the same death certificate. > > There's another statistic that we chose not to consider and that is cancer related deaths which catch people at any age and where ever they live. I have at least 2 or 3 of those in my certificate records; one that had cancer on the face. > Women married earlier, on average, I think we would find. No birth control, they married the man who fathered their children, in most cases, or married someone else. > > My mother and my grandmother had a child aged 23 and had no more. If you work out an average age when a woman might start a family, I think we are seeing here that women go on to have children much older. > > Having married again when I was very young, my mother she married a Welshman and they returned to Wales when my s/father was made redundant. My mother died of cancer in 1992 aged 74. One would think that living in Wales as opposed to living in the suburbs of London would be a healthier life style but it is a statistic where she went to live that many there die of bowel cancer. It is all in the genes no matter where we live. > > Janet > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MF" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 4:52 PM > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Earliest born grandparent > > > : Margaret > : > : You hit on another point of interest > : > : The following is the current set of statistics for MullFamilies (database of > : just over 18,000) > : > : Note that average lifespan is under 50 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >