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Help reading (Scottish) cause of death please
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Help reading (Scottish) cause of death please
03-04-09, 22:47
From 1752. There are several of these on the page, all for young children or babies.
Any idea what it says, please?
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03-04-09, 23:08
It looks like it says "Chin host" and my immediate thought is "chin cough" which was, I think, an old fashioned name for whooping cough.
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04-04-09, 07:19
There's an interesting piece here about "hoast" including old remedies for "kink-hoast" - whooping cough.
Scots Language Centre - Word of the week - Hoast n., v. a cough, to cough
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04-04-09, 07:21
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Ah, the other old-fashioned term was "King cough". That fits nicely.
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04-04-09, 07:30
OC - interesting, I hadn't heard of either of those names for it.
I thought hoast was maybe derived from the German husten - to cough
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04-04-09, 12:19
Thanks, both of you.
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04-04-09, 12:26
My mother in law always used to say to the kids "put a coat on or you'll catch king cough"! (She was from Hull)
I have since seen it as a cause of death in Dade parish records from West Yorkshire.
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