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I really can't believe this - look for yourself...

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Judith

Judith Report 29 Sep 2006 22:45

If you search on Freebmd (or the Ancestry copy of the same database) for deaths under ANY surname, born around 1898 you will inevitably find them all dying young because the deaths have only been transcribed up to about 1911 and so the youngsters who survived into adulthood won't be listed. What surprised me more was the huge number of entries for the surname Hogben was this the Kent equivalent of Smith or Jones?!

Gerry

Gerry Report 29 Sep 2006 21:55

I keep wondering if I have done something like not filling in the info correctly or something, but I've searched for deaths before and even with one surname, it has never given me so many that all died in such a short space of time, and most within a year of birth. I just hope there wasn't something sinister going on. If that was happening in this day and age there would be one hell of an uproar going on about it ! I still haven't even managed to find my relation - there are so many of them that have died he's too difficult to pinpoint ! :'o(

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₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&# Report 29 Sep 2006 21:53

Could it have been Typhoid?

Uncle John

Uncle John Report 29 Sep 2006 21:50

Perhaps there was an epedemic at the time.

Gerry

Gerry Report 29 Sep 2006 21:31

I was looking for the death records of some recent relations I had found, and on the second page, out of 50 names, 48 of them died before they reached about 5 years of age. The other two died before reaching their teens. Most of the 48 died the same year they were born. The first page isn't much better. They ALL came from north Kent - where my relations came from, and ALL have the same surname. I haven't dared look at the next page!!! I don't think it will accept the URL if I paste it here, but if you use the same search parameters as me then it should bring it up. I entered Herbert Ralph Hogben, birth 1898 and County Kent - that's all. How on earth can anyone explain so many children all in the same area, with the same name, dying so early in life? There must be over 100 in the first three pages listed - it honestly makes me want to cry! It's so sad and horrible thoughts of how or why they died so young and in such numbers, all with the same surname - it doesn't bear thinking about!