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Help with cause of death please

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AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Jan 2011 16:14

As far as I can tell it is Anectus.

when i search on that I get a saint and nothing else. Anyone any idea?

Flick

Flick Report 19 Jan 2011 16:21

It there only the one word?

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Jan 2011 16:26

Yes, just the one on two certificates both signed by the same registrar in 1865 and 1869

Flick

Flick Report 19 Jan 2011 16:28

Nothing that looks like it on the netdoctor website - but that, of course, lists modern info.

Barbara

Barbara Report 19 Jan 2011 16:29

You could try looking here

http://rmhh.co.uk/medical.html

Flick

Flick Report 19 Jan 2011 16:33

The only old word I can find for a serious illness/disease starting 'an' is

Anasarca: Generalized massive edema. Generalised massive dropsy

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Jan 2011 17:01

Thanks I have looked closely again. one is definitely ANECTUS a male 1865). But the other is not so clear and looks more like SENECTUS (a female 1869) given that the same person has written both one definitely starts with A the other could be S or C or he could have changed his style of writing A, there is a loop.

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Jan 2011 17:05

Barbara, sorry but could you check you have that web address right, it is not recognised. Thanks
Ann

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Jan 2011 17:06

It is definitely one word in both cases with an e in the middle (theyw ere husband and wife.

Linda

Linda Report 19 Jan 2011 17:10

Senectus - Old age
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/International/Latin.htm
don't know about Anectus though!

Linda

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Jan 2011 17:16

Senectus old age that makes sense as she was 83 but he (with the Anectus was 92. Maybe the registrar mmade a mistake??

Anectus being a saint maybe he was considered a martyr!!!