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Is this why we can't find their deaths?
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Potty | Report | 22 Jan 2008 19:26 |
Yes, Kathryn, I think you are right. How sad! |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 22 Jan 2008 19:10 |
Potty -- I think they simply died before there was a chance to baptise them. |
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Potty | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:39 |
Island, |
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Kate | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:35 |
Gwyn just made me think of something. I always called my real aunties and uncles "Aunty" or "Uncle" (although two of them queries why I'd written "To Uncle John" etc on my 21st birthday invites saying, "Don't you think you're old enough to drop the "Aunty" and "Uncle" bits now - which I still refuse to do) but also I either knew my neighbours as "Mr. Jones" or "Aunty Ann" etc, depending on how well I knew them. |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:31 |
"1875 - 537 deaths Unknown Male, 234 for babies under a year" |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:30 |
heh heh, coming at it two different ways. ;) |
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Potty | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:29 |
1875 - 537 deaths Unknown Male, 234 for babies under a year. |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:29 |
Potty, if you are doing pre-1866 deaths, do a quick search at FreeBMD to confirm what I said about "male" and "female". |
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Potty | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:24 |
I have just done a search for deaths, Surname: Unknown, Name:Male, from 1838 to 1860 - there were 9145 results! |
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Potty | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:21 |
Thinking about it after I posted, I did wonder if they were infants but would still have thought that then (1838) they would have been baptised as without the baptism they could not have been buried in consecrated ground. |
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ChristineinPortugal | Report | 22 Jan 2008 18:16 |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 22 Jan 2008 17:59 |
It seems strange to us that an informant would not know a first name but did know a surname, but even when I was young Mum always referred to people by their surnames, .... Mrs Carpenter, Mrs Powell etc, ...even though she knew them quite well. |
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JaneyCanuck | Report | 22 Jan 2008 15:39 |
Are you doing oldies? Ones that have no age at birth, that is, before the mid-late 1860s. |
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Joan | Report | 22 Jan 2008 15:28 |
Very sad....I suppose there would have been still borns too, and ones which died very shortly after birth |
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Potty | Report | 22 Jan 2008 15:08 |
I was happily transcribing my freebmd page today and thought what a lot of "males" and "females" on one page! I bet that is why I can't find some of mine - probably registered before they were named. |