From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-10-09 21:55:48 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
      
   > In message , Athel Cornish-Bowden   
   >  writes:   
   >> On 2019-10-09 14:26:54 +0000, Ian Goddard said:   
   >>   
   >>> On 09/10/19 10:44, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   >>>> One of my great great grandfathers died after falling from his horse.   
   >>>> Fortunately for me he left issue.   
   >   
   > (My notes on my GGGF say "fell off a ladder, according to my mother" -   
   > comment itself ascribed to my Grandma. [Seems very plausible, as he was   
   > a builder, and died young.])   
   >   
   >>> Without actually counting the number of greats, I have a similar   
   >>> example.  He was coming back from market day so that might have had a   
   >>> bearing.   
   >   
   > (-:   
   >   
   >>> On the other side of my family I Kirkburton Parish Register has a   
   >>> burial on 11 Jun 1786 "Sarah and Mary daughters of James Knutton of   
   >>> Mythambridge in Thurstonland the one aged 23 years and the other 28   
   >>> They died on the same day and at about the same hour of the day and   
   >>> were buried in the same grave."   
   >   
   > Were they run down by a cart being driven by a man returning from the   
   > market? (Sorry.)   
   >>   
   >> I'm reminded of the Rev. John Burgess Karslake, one of my great^4   
   >> grandfathers, who survived a fire in his house in South Molton in   
   >> 1748/9 a few hours after he was born, in which both his parents and two   
   >> brothers died. He was saved by his nurse, who tied him up in her apron   
   >> and jumped out of a window. I haven't seen it, but I believe there is a   
   >> memorial plaque in the church.   
   >>   
   > I hope the plaque mentions the heroism of the nurse. Though I wouldn't   
   > be surprised if it doesn't.   
      
   No, it doesn't. One of the churchwardens sent me a photo of it last   
   night. It does raise a question that has probably arisen in other   
   cases. My records say 30 January 1748/9, but the plaque says 30 January   
   1749 O:S:, which is different. The plaque refers to another event in   
   1809, so it was put up long afterwards.   
      
      
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   > Three- (or four-) way referendum, if we _have_ to have another one.   
   >   
   > (The "treat northern Ireland differently" option I've mentioned is back!)   
      
      
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