Mary AIRTON
(1814-1832)
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Mary Airton was buried on 10th April 1832, a victim of the cholera that had just arrived in Goole and Hull.
There’s an article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Of Medicine, vol 28, 1935, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591573502800545, about the history of this epidemic which is horrifying: medical knowledge, even if you could afford a doctor, was scant, the idea of waterborne disease was not accepted yet, and some doctors were still bleeding their patients, though others were trying large amounts of drinking water or saline injections….
Goole, like most towns of the time, had scant access to water or sanitation, so diseases like cholera had free rein.
(Research by J.I.)
Estimated Year of Birth: 1814
Date of Death: 8th April 1832
Age: 18 Years
Grave No: 292
Latitude: 53.7206
Longitude: -0.85102
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Condition: Sound & in situ
Length (mm): 2100 mm
Width (mm): 920 mm
Thickness (mm): 72 mm
Mason: W. Thorpe. Goole
SACRED
to the Memory of. /
Mary Airton. Daughter /
of William and Mary Airton /
of Goole who died April 8th /
Anno Domini 1832 in the 18th /
year of her age. /
Also William Airton /
Father of the above, /who died May the 19th 1840, /
Aged 53 Years.
Father: AIRTON, William (1787-1840)
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