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Manx Genealogy

Re: CHOLERA BURIAL 1832
In Response To: CHOLERA BURIAL 1832 ()

Have you read the many articles in Manx Notebook collected by Francis? Manx Radio once had a series rather like " Here is the News " read by the presenter for the day as if
in another century & Terry Cringle produced a book on the same topic [now out of print] However on page 88 he summarises newspaper articles from 1832--4. 1832 was a long, hot
summer 83 victims were buried in [old] Kirk Braddan & 34 in St Georges graveyard in Douglas. In Summer 1833 86 more bodies were buried at St Georges. The area of these
graves is easily seen in St George's ------a large grassed plot [apparently with no burials because of course no memorials -shared graves ] with a wooden cross labelled
"Cholera -1832 -------33. At Kirk Braddan burials were squeezed in to a small ground & there a some very small marker stones --a Cholera 1832. Careful records of positions would
have been kept in the church burial records as with all burials but I suspect with even more care for fear of later disturbance & infection. Things were so desperate that graves
were even dug by lantern light.