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Week 9 (Feb. 26-Mar. 3): Disaster
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Week 9's theme is "Disaster." Our ancestors faced any number of disasters — natural, personal, financial. Perhaps you've had a disaster in your research. How did they (or you) overcome it? (Or maybe they didn't?)
i am absoltely stuck for this weeks theme. even with the above hint from Amy JOhnson Crow!**no point asking the living for help as the dead are more helpful!!!**
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Caroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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Maybe somebody was affected by a Cholera epidemic? https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/100519
https://digital.nls.uk/scotlandspage...line/1848.html - my great x3 grandfather died in that one.
My Scottish potters left Glasgow when the potteries were closing down. Ended up in London ....
Factories opening meant weavers and spinners might be out of work.
Any Irish affected by the Potato Famine?
Any miners at the time of a mine disaster even if they weren't involved?
Railway accidents?
Disaster at sea?
Flooding:
Actually I am lucky because every time I search for Lewcock in newspapers I get full reports of a gunpowder explosion. Not my direct line but a distant twig.Caroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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A disaster for my OH's great-great-grandmother and her surviving children in 1832. The youngest child was a baby. They lived at Whitby, North Yorkshire, where her husband Charles was a gunsmith and also ran a public house on his premises. In June he travelled by ship to London, where he died. For many years it appeared he had disappeared off the face of the earth, as we couldn't find his burial, but his aunt's will confirmed he had died. Then we found this on Google Books describing his death from cholera (not for the faint-hearted):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...street&f=false
Elizabeth
Research Interests:
England:Purkis, Stilwell, Quintrell, White (Surrey - Guildford), Jeffcoat, Bond, Alexander, Lamb, Newton (Lincolnshire, Stalybridge, London)
Scotland:Richardson (Banffshire), Wishart (Kincardineshire), Johnston (Kincardineshire)
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Originally posted by Elizabeth Herts View PostA disaster for my OH's great-great-grandmother and her surviving children in 1832. The youngest child was a baby. They lived at Whitby, North Yorkshire, where her husband Charles was a gunsmith and also ran a public house on his premises. In June he travelled by ship to London, where he died. For many years it appeared he had disappeared off the face of the earth, as we couldn't find his burial, but his aunt's will confirmed he had died. Then we found this on Google Books describing his death from cholera (not for the faint-hearted):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...street&f=falseCaroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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Caroline, it was a huge shock when we first read it. Unfortunately there were other cholera deaths in my own lineage. There was a cholera outbreak in London in 1854. My great-great-grandmother Eliza (maiden name Jeffcoat) was married to James Penfold Brewer and they had three small children. James succumbed to cholera on 31st August, aged 30. They lived in Battersea. Then, on 6th September, her mother Ann died from cholera in Knightsbridge at the home of one of her children. Her husband Daniel died on 18th October, reportedly from anemia, but I suspect he too was weakened by cholera. The all lived in good conditions for the time, showing that cholera affected everyone.Elizabeth
Research Interests:
England:Purkis, Stilwell, Quintrell, White (Surrey - Guildford), Jeffcoat, Bond, Alexander, Lamb, Newton (Lincolnshire, Stalybridge, London)
Scotland:Richardson (Banffshire), Wishart (Kincardineshire), Johnston (Kincardineshire)
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finallly getting somewhere witht his weeks theme, just when i was loosing hope i get a hint on ancestry linked to a newspaper article someone had shared linkked to a relative and his death. ive looked it up and with help with details of it and it matches in with info i had linked to his career. so just need get to work on it now.**no point asking the living for help as the dead are more helpful!!!**
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Originally posted by yummy-mummy-amy View Postfinallly getting somewhere witht his weeks theme, just when i was loosing hope i get a hint on ancestry linked to a newspaper article someone had shared linkked to a relative and his death. ive looked it up and with help with details of it and it matches in with info i had linked to his career. so just need get to work on it now.Caroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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Originally posted by Caroline View Post
I wondered if it might be your disaster story we were helping out with.**no point asking the living for help as the dead are more helpful!!!**
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here we are the "disaster" story https://purplerosefamilytree.blogspo...-disaster.html**no point asking the living for help as the dead are more helpful!!!**
https://purplerosefamilytree.blogspot.com/
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Originally posted by yummy-mummy-amy View Posthere we are the "disaster" story https://purplerosefamilytree.blogspo...-disaster.html
I noticed that you had asked about the newspaper in two forums, maybe next time if you need help, which you will always get, you could just warn us that other people might be looking elsewhere as it took us a long time to find it here between us and it might already have been located in the other forum. (and we could have been using the time in writing our own stories!! )Caroline
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That is an interesting story and reminded me of something that befell my g.g.grandmother in 1903. I must get back to that strand and write it up properly. I found the article at the Newspaper archive in Colindale many moons ago but I haven't yet found it digitized anywhere yet. I will have to find the photocopy that was done for me at the time and put it through the scanner.Main research interests.. CAESAR (Surrey and London), GOODALL (London), SKITTERALL, WOODWARD (Middlesex and London), BARBER (Canterbury, Kent), DRAYSON (Canterbury, Kent), CRISP (Kent) and CHEESEMAN (Kent).
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Finally finished the transcription. When I have more time I intend to go back and amplify the article - there is much more in the newspapers as well as more to write about the gunpowder mills and the inquest and follow up to William's family that I could do .... one day.
Caroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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