I am amazed to see an article from Tom Wood saying somebody had got a copy of a death cert where it says Cause of Death ??? Decay of Nature , and he (Tom)had never heard of it before ?? well I have .
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Quick look shows I have 3 with that - all from the mid 1850s. Must have been the 'in thing'
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I have loads of death certs with that on, as well as decline and old age!
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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Originally posted by Margaret in Burton View PostI have that on a death cert lots of times. Visitation of God is another strange one.David
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My 4xgrt grandmother died from "general decay", poor old thing, in 1838 in her eighties.
I've been reading some newspapers from the 1840s, and any unexplained but natural looking death that has warranted an inquest, is recorded as "by visitation of God", which has a lovely ring to it. Another interesting thing that comes out of these inquest reports in the newspapers, is the number of deaths by burning for young children playing too near to the fire, or for old people dropping off in front of the fire.
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Oh! That is sad, Val :o
On a lighter note, I also read about a baby boy being born on the steps of the Bank of England and a gentleman describing the wonderful white flowers on his rosebush at the end of October and praising the south of England's clement climate - he wasn't worried about global warming :D
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