Deaths in Meerbeke in 1808

Age less than 2 years : ... 11 ....... 11
Age less than 10 years : ... 7 ....... 18
Age less than 20 years : ... 2 ....... 20
Age less than 30 years : ... 6 ....... 26
Age less than 40 years : ... 2 ....... 28
Age less than 50 years : ... 4 ....... 32
Age less than 60 years : ... 1 ....... 33
Age less than 70 years : ... 4 ....... 37
Age less than 80 years : ... 1 ....... 38
Age less than 90 years : ... 3 ....... 41
Over 90 years : ................. 1 ....... 42
Unknown : ......................... 1 ....... 43

The terrible statistics speak for themselves. Of 43 people who died that year, 20 did not live to see the age of twenty ...

Why 1808 ? The longest living person (who died at an age of 97 years) was my ancestor Nicolaes Timmermans (1711 - 1808).

See : http://www.rikvanhauwe.be/rip.mbk/meerbeke+1808.B.htm.

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