Apply for Death Certs or Not

[Guest]

Have brothers being buried same day 6 Sep 1854 in Bermondsey ,is it worth sending for Certs do you think or is it quite likely to have been Cholera or another epidemic?

Thanks

[Olde Crone Holden]

Val

You'll never know unless you get the certs!

I have two brothers buried within 5 days of each other in the early 1900s. DC showed that one died of diphtheria, the other was kicked by a horse.

OC

[Guest]

must admit I'm more than curious OC this family cannot be found after 1851 ? maybe the certs will give me a clue ? Think I will send for them thanks OC.

[Gwyn in Kent]

Have you seen the original burial records?
Sometimes the vicar would write a note in the margin, especially if there were unusual circumstances.

Gwyn

[Guest]

Hi Gwyn only whats on Ancestry ,nothing mentioned there.

[Chrissie Smiff]

You've made me curious now Val. Please come back and tell us what they both died of.

[Lin Fisher]

I had a family that had about 6 deaths in 3 weeks and decided to send for one of the DC's. Turned out she dies of Typhus so decided they all had. Reading what O C has put has now made me wonder.

Not ordered a cert for ages, so might try another one.

[Guest]

Maybe I should have said they were very young ? but am today ordering the certs anyway as it might just give me a clue as to where the family are after 1851?
Lin I have not ordered one for ages either cannot afford them so much now, but this has got me thinking.

[dopeyploppy]

I have 2 great great uncles whose deaths are consecutive in the register. They died a day apart - the first of TB the second of heart attack - got the info from the local paper x

[Guest]

What a strange coincidence Jayne ?

[kylejustin]

i have a father and son on the same page in 1870. i assumed they both died at work....its quite possible, but i only got the father so far, hes the ancestor and died from heart attack at 44.

[Guest]

got them today both died of Cholera one on the 4th Sep the other on the 5th Sep

[kylejustin]

how sad val, but not unexpected in those days.

[Chrissie Smiff]

Oh how sad Val. Thanks for telling us.

[Jill on the A272]

Do you have access to the 19th Century British Library Newspapers site Val? If you put in a start date of 1854 and seach terms Bermondsey cholera there are several items about it.

[Guest]

thanks Jill have been googling and found a huge article about it, I dont have access to that ?
Was hoping the address given would have helped me find the family in 1861 but it does not seem to exist ?

[bubblebelle]

I was asked to look up two sisters dying on the same day at the local R.O (local papers), the person requesting thinking it may have been a fire or suchlike. It turned out one had been caring for the other for many years. The carer died of pneumonia after a few days of feeling unwell, whilst the sickly sister died a few hours later in her sleep. So you can never be sure.

[Guest]

I found 4 deaths all in the same quarter year and area and found it was a Mother and her two children and a Granddaughter ,a member on here found the report in the papers ,they had been in the same house when it burnt down, very upsetting.