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From: "Nick Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: [DUR-NBL] Illnesses
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:37:36 +0100
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I have looked up the ref in the said book. It must be remembered that it is
written in a "factional" way, the deaths being extracted from the Brancepeth
Parish Registers. However the telling thing is in the second to last para of
1868, where it says "The year's total of 31 deaths, 23 of whom were infants,
spread sorrow throughout the colliery rows.Scarlet fever seriously depleted
the ranks of the young.
My second cousin once removed, Walter H Armstrong was a colliery manager at
Brandon between 1932 and 1943.
My GG grandfather was killed in an accident on the Oakenshaw Colliery
Railway in 1874.
The book is an excellent read. I know it went into a second edition, but
whether it is still obtainable I do not know
Nick Armstrong

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From: "brian cook" <>
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Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 1:26 PM
Subject: [DUR-NBL] Illnesses


> I have some notes I made some time ago from a book called "The History of
Brandon Colliery"1856-1960 by Laurie Moran and one quote states -"1869 -
During March the sad cortege of death continued, Elizabeth Pearson PRESTON,
seven years, and her four year old brother Robert died on the same day"
> Does anyone please know if there was some epidemic around at that time.
>
> Regards, Brian Cook, Skelton,East Cleveland
>
> researching PAULIN-Northumberland and Durham
> COOK - Brough and Sunderland
> JACOB -Cornwall and N.W.London
> PRESTON - Lancs and Co.Durham
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