Genealogy Chat

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'Accidentally killed by a locomotive at Hebburn Colliery whilst trespassing!' What was he doing?? Scavenging for coal? Taking a shortcut home? Don’t suppose I’ll ever know. Brenda

Teeth! That's what it says...she died of Teeth aged 11 months. Apparantly something to do with poor hygiene meant that a lot of babies died from infections picked up as a result of open gums whilst teething! Lou

Cause of death: Old age Duration: 4 days ! And she was only 52 ... Must have been a rough four days

ruptured liver and right kidney due to being run over by horse and cart- our equivilent of a car accident!

diarrhea aged 6 months! That was it, i suppose there was more to it but that is all it said on the cert. Claire x

'Accidentally killed by a fall downstairs being in a state of Drunkeness'.

oh Julie you did make me laugh if that was old age I should have gone a long time ago

I got one today a 4year old died of a sudden spasm of the glottis does that mean a fit ?????????

This is the longest Cause of Death I have ever encountered: 'Hypostatic Pneumonia due to compound comminuted fracture of right femur, fracture of left radius and double fracture of the jaw and fracture of skull sustained on the 30th August 1949 when the motor cycle on which deceased was riding came into collision with another motor cycle on the Admington-Mickleton Lane at Admington. (Misadventure)'

Where is that brilliant thread from about 6 months back about causes of death. My favourite still has to be the one who suffocated in a cart load of feathers.

not one of mine but (Visitation of God) 11week infant. Roy

Heather, I remember laughing my socks off reading that thread. I remember the cart of feathers but what was so odd was that other people rode home in the cart and left that poor person drunk in feathers! Another favourite was the person who fell in a ditch and refuse to get out! Although explosive drinking was pretty good as well. My family all seem to have very ordinary causes of death on the certificates I have ordered so far but I live in hope! Louise

Brenda, I would have thought such an accident would have been reported in the local papers at the time. If you got in touch with the library at Hebburn they should have local papers on film, and if you've got the date of death it shouldn't take long to find any reports of the accident. Kath. x

What a shame, I cant find it - it did make me larf too! I liked the one who refused to get out of the ditch aswell! Didnt something else weird happen in the same parish as that one? I ought to bring up the rude names found in ancestry one too! When I met my distant cousin (through this site) when he came up to do some research into our mutual ancestors he said he found an entry in the burials of the parish records saying 'Poor girl found frozen to death by wayside'. I did think that was so sad. Poor kid, not even a name.

The thread was Lyla's 'Most Amusing Causes of Death'. Twas I who found the poor soul drowned in a cart of feathers, also the man falling into a ditch and refusing to get out AND the man who drank boiling water from a kettle. The funny thing is, these were all from a Parish near me, which has a reputation locally for the inhabitants being a bit, erm, thick. I always thought it was a joke but now I am not so sure! I was so moved by the daft bint who drowned in a cart of feathers, I had to send away for the Inquest. I was crying with laughter (may God forgive me) because she was drunk and fell face down into the feathers while the cart was going up a steep hill. They left her, the cart and the horse, in the stables to sleep it off, the horse kept neighing all night and the Carter was really cross, but at the Inquest, he thought maybe the horse had been trying to alert him. I still don't know why the man who fell into the ditch refused to get out - and what did they do, just leave him there, shrug their shoulders and go home for their tea? Marjorie

my relation was KILLED BY A LEVER COMING UP AND HITTING HIM!!! marjory peek makes me laff so my i PMSL all over again kate

my g grandad fell off his bicycle!

After reading these on Parish Registers for Sparsholt Hamps; dont suppose there would be any need for death cert:: As added in notes by the Vicar Masters;on burial day; 1858; He through himself down the well::PLOP!!! 1860; He droped down dead while coming up the hill home: 1862 Found drowned in well;(another PLOP)!! 1866 Found drowned in pond;Splashhhhh!! and the sad one. 1896; Poor child choked to death on piece of Willow Catkin;Ah;; Did some of these have fasination with water?????? kay.

my grt grt grandfather died of pestilence de pecheur. but he had been an inmate in the workhouse for years so how or when he got the pestilence I don't know Bren