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    The year, 1828 - a person died by "Visitation by God"

    Can someone please tell me what this means?
    jood sadly died in November 2019.

  • #2
    Hi Jood, How interesting, I've not come across that before so did a little google and found this ...

    http://genealogy.about.com/b/2007/11/26/visitation-of-god.htm

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    • #3
      Hi - seems to be a few meanings;
      Died of natural causes (unexplained)
      Emphasise another cause of death
      (They) believed the plague was a visitation of God.
      Visitation of God

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      • #4
        Verrry interesting - thanks Naomiatt and John
        jood sadly died in November 2019.

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        • #5
          I've seen a few with that.

          I suppose it's better than 'visitation by Satan'

          lol

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          • #6
            This is an interesting thread Judy, I haven't come across it before, but reading John's website I'm seriously hoping to find one of my ancestors 'visited by God' :D

            They) believed the plague was a visitation of God
            Libby I'm inclined to believe that it would have been Satan's visit that would have spread this around

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            • #7
              Val - you'd laugh if you knew what I thought it meant
              - that he'd/she'd gone down the tunnel, seen the light and come back again lol
              jood sadly died in November 2019.

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              • #8
                I suppose that would be more "visiting" than "visited"

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                • #9
                  I suppose that would be more "visiting" than "visited"
                  *chuckle*
                  jood sadly died in November 2019.

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                  • #10
                    I've a few death certificates with Visitation by God on them. They are all from early records before Dr's were advised to put a medical reason for death.
                    Daphne

                    Looking for Northey, Goodfellow, Jobes, Heal, Lilburn, Curry, Gay, Carpenter, Johns, Harris, Vigus from Cornwall, Somerset, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, USA, Australia.

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                    • #11
                      I just found this old thread of mine written in 2006, and brought it back up again in case anyone else was interested. I had forgotten about it.
                      jood sadly died in November 2019.

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                      • #12
                        I think it might be a stroke as that was thought to be 'stroked by the hand of God'.
                        Margaret

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                        • #13
                          that's another interesting idea

                          Just looked up google again and found this:

                          What does Visitation of God mean on a death certificate?

                          If you are researching your family history, you may be somewhat surprised and perplexed when you come across a parish register, death certificate or coroner's report which states the cause of death as 'Visitation of God' (ex visitacone dei). What does this mean?

                          For centuries, doctors struggled in the darkness over the causes of disease and death, and how the human body functioned. If a person died, because of the doctor's limited knowledge they could only describe the cause of death as a fever, apoplexy, or convulsions, or what he could visibly see such as a head wound, or evidence of a lifestyle such as over indulgence of drink.

                          Occasionally he would describe the cause of death as a Visitation of God. Used in a more religious time than ours, it meant the death was inexplicable and it was thought that God had decided that it was time for the person to die.

                          It later came to mean that the person died of natural causes. It was a verdict often given by Coroner's juries, particularly in the 19th century. It was very rare that any autopsy was held and a doctor would give his opinion from the physical evidence of the body before him and the accounts he heard from others of the health of the deceased.

                          Also the coroner was only really concerned with the detection of crime, so the medical reason for the death did not matter to him once criminality had been ruled out.
                          jood sadly died in November 2019.

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                          • #14
                            Probably things like Pulmonary embolism would also come under Visitation of God as they are often sudden and unexplained deaths.

                            Linda
                            Linda


                            My avatar is my Grandmother Carolina Meulenhoff 1896 - 1955

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                            • #15
                              I ordered a copy of a death certificate hoping the informant would help establish whether or not the deceased was my relative....No such luck and the cause of death (1885) was shown as '..probably decay of nature'
                              ......or else maybe what?

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                              • #16
                                i get a lot that say decay of nature.

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                                • #17
                                  My Dad sadly passed away in January and we were most surprised when the death certificate just said,"old age". I thought they had to be more specific than that these days. Probably the best thing to die of tho.

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                                  • #18
                                    My Dad sadly passed away in January and we were most surprised when the death certificate just said,"old age". I thought they had to be more specific than that these days. Probably the best thing to die of tho.
                                    In this day and age Karen, it does seem really strange that a Dr would just put "old age" on a certificate doesn't it! I'd have thought they would have to be more specific.
                                    jood sadly died in November 2019.

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