Mary AIRTON

(1814-1832)

Mary Airton - Cholera Victim

Grave No: 292;

Estimated Year of Birth: 1814;

Date of Death: 8th April 1832;

Age: 18 Years;

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: 292: AIRTON, William (1787-1840)

Mary Airton - Cholera Victim

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.)

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