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  • Talk about naming and shaming.

    Going through the Kirkby records again (and again)

    In the burials of 1577

    Edmund Kirkby 12th Jan
    Issabell Kirkby 17th Jan
    Sibel Kirkby 28th Dec
    Elisabethe Kirkby 29th Dec

    The same note is in all of them

    "pestelent sicknes in pishe wch was brought in by one George Barwicke"

    Starting to feel sorry for poor old George.

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    oh dear, poor George

    Looks like they were all from the same family though.

    Looking at the year then it could easily be the plague.

    Remembering: Cuthbert Gregory 1889 - 1916, George Arnold Connelly 1886 - 1917, Thomas Lowe Davenport 1890 - 1917, Roland Davenport Farmer 1885 - 1916, William Davenport Sheffield 1879 - 1915, Cuthbert Gregory 1918 - 1944

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    • #3
      Actually Tom my curiosity got the better.

      There were 21 deaths between 19th Nov and 25th Feb 1577 with the same note, 5 were George's children.

      Under George's entry is:

      "Wch brought in the sicknes"

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      • #4
        It sounds a little like the note I found today in the Asplin Military History Resource website
        "14 april 1891 Private G.Greenwood 2nd Battalion West Riding Regiment will embark at 12 noon on saturday next the 18th instance in the Mail Steamer 'Liverpool' and then discharge as incorrigible and worthless"
        Not much of a reference I thought!!

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