Just a small note - in 1858 there was the first mass epidemic of diphtheria, which affects the throat. I think it's possible that William died of that but it wasn't diagnosed as such, since it wasn't then a well-known disease.
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Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall
Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey
Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk
Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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