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The Plague - are there any records?
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RStar | Report | 1 Jul 2007 21:54 |
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I know it sounds morbid! But I'm doing my husbands tree, and many of his folk came from Chesterton in Warwickshire and the surrounding villages. Found out that the village was badly hit by the Plague, and I'm wondering if theres any record of those who died from it? |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 1 Jul 2007 22:54 |
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You can often spot plague victims in the burial registers of a parish. They didnt always call it the plague though - I have seen it called the Ague, the French Ague, and God's Curse upon this Parish. I don't THINK there are any organised lists anywhere? OC |
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RStar | Report | 1 Jul 2007 22:54 |
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Thats great news, as the village church has records going back to the 1500s, so I'll go for a mooch when theyre open :-) ... Just realised I had put their instead of there...Im not illiterate, honest lol. |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 1 Jul 2007 23:02 |
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I have a feeling that there is a list of victims in Eyam in Derbyshire, which was badly hit by the plague. Not sure what the source is, though. |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 2 Jul 2007 00:14 |
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Just a couple of snippets: All London parishes were obliged to return a weekly 'Bill of Mortality' in 1665 (Plague year). Presumably these are in the relevant archives now. The Vicar of Eyam survived the plague and therefore presumably entered all the names of the plague victims in the burial register. The Plague was endemic in Britain for centuries, of course, so these comments apply to the Plague of 1665, when over 100,000 people died of it in London alone. OC |
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Peter | Report | 2 Jul 2007 00:19 |
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Romany, I assume you are referring to the C17 outbreak. If so, it is extremely unlikely that the church will still have the registers relating to that period. They will be in the CRO instead. The cause of death might be given but you may just find that there is a greater mortality at that time. Peter |
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Kaz in a Tizz | Report | 2 Jul 2007 01:01 |
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Hi I visited Eyam on a school trip with one of my boys. There is a complete list of all who died from the plague there inc. family relationships and ages. I am not sure how other villages dealt with the plague but it was 'out of the ordinary' so hopefully will be something in the parish records or the local church. Kaz |
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Richard | Report | 2 Jul 2007 02:11 |
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From two seperate websites: 'Parish burial registers from Elizabethan times were required by law to designate parishioners who died of the plague. As a result, medical historians have invaluable and unique records of the plagues in England over some 100 years' 'Elizabethan plague regulations required the priest to record all the deaths from the plague by writing a p in the Register against the names ' |
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