[TI] Age at death?

[Janet Weston]

Laura,

Thanks for checking on this -- I do appreciate it. What a tragic time that 
was for our ancestors. I have to believe that in the grief and confusion, an 
error was made in the record.

Janet



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Johnson" <rngade57 at madisontelco.com>
To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [TI] Age at death?


> Janet,
>
> I wish I could tell you it was 30 something but it is definitely 3.
>
> The only 'saving' grace is that this is a cholera death.
> The cholera deaths are a totally different item.  They are NOT documents 
> but are only an index of the deaths that were reported.  Because there 
> were over 1800 of these deaths in about a 7 week time frame, they were 
> only listed as an index.  As we don't know who reported the birth, there 
> is a possibility that the age was a mistake.  There is also a possibility 
> that the clerk recorded the death incorrectly.
>
> I will add the following to the entry in the database (which will show up 
> on the next update)
> 'Age 3.  [There is a possibility that his age should be 30 something based 
> on other children born of this same couple.]
>
> Janet Weston wrote:
>> Laura,
>>
>> Would you be able to check the age at death for Agostino LaSita, son of 
>> Giuseppe LaSita and Giuseppa Donese? [Morte, Dig# 33, film# 1714034, doc# 
>> 50] The Notes indicates that he was aged 3 when he died 24 July 1837. I 
>> wonder if the age could be 30-something?
>>
>> I do not find a birth record for him in the database, but according to 
>> the death record he would have been born ca 1834. I have found two other 
>> children for Giuseppe LaSita and Giuseppa Donese: Marina LaSita, born ca 
>> 1793; and Giuseppe LaSita, born ca 1805. Over forty years between the 
>> births of Marina and Agostino would be quite incredible!
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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