Interesting burials

[ElizabethHerts]

These are non-conformist burials at Dukinfield.

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer...rue&pId=322238

They appear to mention where the person was buried.
One entry made me sad - No. 297:
"Robert Hallam son of James of Dukinfield he was unfortunately strangled in the coal pit when at work - age 15".

These registers are a gold mine of information.

[Phoenix]

And his sister was buried with him, less than a month later.

[Olde Crone]

Most of my Lancashire ancestors were noncons and the registers are indeed goldmines of information, particularly the ones which put people into family groups for several generations. So useful for sorting out one Jane from another!

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[Janet]

I’ve been trawling through that. Very interesting. Thanks, Elizabeth.

[HarrysMum]

The old Lancs ones are brilliant…….but sometimes brutal. I must find the one that names the man who brought the sickness into the area.

[HarrysMum]

Check out Lancs OPC for George Barwicke 1577.
Cause of death…….pestelent sickness “Wch brought in the sicknes”

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by HarrysMum

Check out Lancs OPC for George Barwicke 1577.
Cause of death…….pestelent sickness “Wch brought in the sicknes”

Either the incubation period was very short, or that entry was written a little while after he died.

[Phoenix]

Oh goodness, I'm completely wrong. I can't get up a chronological listing of burials, but looking simply at burials, it looks as if he killed large numbers of villagers before succumbing himself at least six weeks later.

[Olde Crone]

So it may not have been him (he?) who brought in the sickness.

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