Annette Bowen wrote 2013-01-14 02:51: > > I found a death record for Johan Gustaf in 1797 when I was looking for > someone else. It said Alunbruket, so I found the family again, but I > am confused by the cause of death. Johan Gustaf Aspling is the second > death on Jan 19, 1797. Tysslinge C:4 (1797-1832) Image 237 > The cause of death code looks to me like No. 1. The list of codes is > on the left page and I thought No. 1 said childbirth, which doesn't > make sense for a 23-year-old man. --- 19 Jan 1794, assistant smith Johan Aspling's son Johan Gustaf at the alun works, cause 1, age 23. One can suspect a typo for the cause... Or else that list of causes is an old list, no lobger valid. Notice for example that the list ends at 35, but on the right page are several with code 40. > > I followed this family on the HFLs to Tysslinge AI:12 (1806-1810) > Image 171/page 162, when the entire family died, including the > youngest son's wife and two children. It looks like the oldest son, > my ancestor, was the only one with heirs. He had a daughter by his > first wife who lived to bear children, including my great-grandfather, > and a son by his second wife. What is the note under the last > daughter's name? Was she the wife's daughter by a previous marriage? > (Her death record called her Joh. Asplings step daughter, but I think > it should be Anders Asplings step daughter.) --- hustruns dotter med förre mannen = the wife's daughter with the previous husband. > > The father Johan's cause of death was No. 7, and the mother Maria's > was No. 8. Google's translations didn't make much sense to me. The > others died of no. 10, which I assume is any fever, not a specific > disease. 7. Bulnader (swellings), rosen ("the rose"), kallbrand (gangrene) 8. Dragsjuka (?) 10. Febrar af alla slag (fevers of all kind) // Bo Johansson
Thanks you, Bo. I will check a later book to see if there are other codes. Annette On 1/14/13, Bo Johansson <bo.h.johan56@telia.com> wrote: > Annette Bowen wrote 2013-01-14 02:51: >> >> I found a death record for Johan Gustaf in 1797 when I was looking for >> someone else. It said Alunbruket, so I found the family again, but I >> am confused by the cause of death. Johan Gustaf Aspling is the second >> death on Jan 19, 1797. Tysslinge C:4 (1797-1832) Image 237 >> The cause of death code looks to me like No. 1. The list of codes is >> on the left page and I thought No. 1 said childbirth, which doesn't >> make sense for a 23-year-old man. > > --- 19 Jan 1794, assistant smith Johan Aspling's son Johan Gustaf at the > alun works, cause 1, age 23. > > One can suspect a typo for the cause... > > Or else that list of causes is an old list, no lobger valid. Notice for > example that the list ends at 35, but on the right page are several with > code 40. > >> >> I followed this family on the HFLs to Tysslinge AI:12 (1806-1810) >> Image 171/page 162, when the entire family died, including the >> youngest son's wife and two children. It looks like the oldest son, >> my ancestor, was the only one with heirs. He had a daughter by his >> first wife who lived to bear children, including my great-grandfather, >> and a son by his second wife. What is the note under the last >> daughter's name? Was she the wife's daughter by a previous marriage? >> (Her death record called her Joh. Asplings step daughter, but I think >> it should be Anders Asplings step daughter.) > > --- hustruns dotter med förre mannen = the wife's daughter with the > previous husband. > >> >> The father Johan's cause of death was No. 7, and the mother Maria's >> was No. 8. Google's translations didn't make much sense to me. The >> others died of no. 10, which I assume is any fever, not a specific >> disease. > > 7. Bulnader (swellings), rosen ("the rose"), kallbrand (gangrene) > > 8. Dragsjuka (?) > > 10. Febrar af alla slag (fevers of all kind) > > // Bo Johansson > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SWEDEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >