Smallpox Epidemic Yorkshire Vicinity abt. 1905
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Smallpox Epidemic Yorkshire Vicinity abt. 1905
| Judi McRae (View posts) | Posted: 14 Apr 2002 8:33AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Little, Stimpson, Campbell, Wallbridge
I am writing you from Washington State in the United States of America although I am formerly a Canadian resident.
The purpose for my message is that I am trying to research my mother's ancestory. She had always said that she was born in Yorkshire but we can find no record of this. I was told by my brother that her birth was never registered because she was born in the middle of a small box epidemic. We do not know exactly what year she was born or exactly where but she had shared with us before she died that she was about 7 when she sailed to Canada in 1912. My brother says that her sister had died during this epidemic but I am not sure this is true because I remember her telling me stories about her sister dying from eating a poisonous mushroom on the farm in Alberta. I do remember her saying that she (my mother) couldn't get smallpox because she had had cowpox.
The names etc of my family are as follows:
Mother Gwendolyn Little
Her brother Ramsey Little
Her sister Winnefred Little
Her mom Bertha (Stimpson) Little
Her dad John O. Little.
Ramsey was older than Gwendolyn and winnefred was younger.
Could anyone substantiate the existance of a small pox epidemic at that time and give me the years it occured. Please answer to my email address directly as I am not a member of this board.
The purpose for my message is that I am trying to research my mother's ancestory. She had always said that she was born in Yorkshire but we can find no record of this. I was told by my brother that her birth was never registered because she was born in the middle of a small box epidemic. We do not know exactly what year she was born or exactly where but she had shared with us before she died that she was about 7 when she sailed to Canada in 1912. My brother says that her sister had died during this epidemic but I am not sure this is true because I remember her telling me stories about her sister dying from eating a poisonous mushroom on the farm in Alberta. I do remember her saying that she (my mother) couldn't get smallpox because she had had cowpox.
The names etc of my family are as follows:
Mother Gwendolyn Little
Her brother Ramsey Little
Her sister Winnefred Little
Her mom Bertha (Stimpson) Little
Her dad John O. Little.
Ramsey was older than Gwendolyn and winnefred was younger.
Could anyone substantiate the existance of a small pox epidemic at that time and give me the years it occured. Please answer to my email address directly as I am not a member of this board.