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Val wish Id never started
03-01-11, 16:22
St Saviours Union
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1559&iid=31362_190311-00969&fn=Henry&ln=Knight&st=r&ssrc=pt_t6737403_p-597473214_kpidz0q3d-597473214z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q252c32768z0q26pgPLz0q 3dpidz0q252cpid&pid=110166

First time I have seen causes of death on such records

Little Nell
03-01-11, 19:40
Hi quite a lot of lung disease - bronchitis, TB etc, which is what we often find in London. I remember going through a lot of burials in St Luke Old Street in the 1830s and all the adults died of consumption and all the children of convulsions. I don't think it was particularly accurate though!