I recently saw the episode of Martin Freeman of BBC series' Who Do You Think You Are? ". The concept of the whole thing is fascinating, with celebrities has helped to trace their family tree. For the genealogist, the series is a great help in learning how and where to see what the various pieces of information needed to make the story of your own family.
However, this episode stood out from the rest because of the dramatic discoveriesthe final stages of the revelation that his great-grandfather, Richard, was born blind and the father of Martin's grandfather, Leonard, later in life.
The researchers have excavated a number of tests on us the story of Richard, who later became a church organist in Worthing, a father of six children with a woman who died, and again with his second six. An entry in the parish magazine and then mysteriously left his job and the city, alluding to atype of scandal.
Richard Hull still a few years later his third wife, but this time it is also blind. They managed to raise six children (including the grandfather of Martin, Leonard), before Richard died at the age of 70.
Further examination revealed that they had not charged Richard Ada had six children and lived for 12 years, but, armed with certificates of birth of four children who did not survive, Martin sought the advice of an expertGreat Ormond Street. Together they determined that these four were born and died on a particular form of "failure to thrive" within six to eight years.
In the years before and immediately after the beginning of the 20th century, the most common cause was congenital syphilis, a disease can also cause blindness at birth or during the first year after the acquisition of the cornea glasses.
It was discovered that Ada was not born blind, but hadlost his sight at the age of three years and the death certificate of his elder brother, has revealed that he had died a month before he was conceived "constitutional syphilis', at the age of three months. This meant that presented with symptoms that were denied and could not be included as a simple "grow", which shows that the most likely cause of Ada blinded as a small child the same disease.
General opinion is that syphilis in those days, fatal,go through different symptoms, including a terrible facial rash that causes the nose to the end to fall before going mad.
The expert consensus was that Ada was born with a congenital syphilis (ie caught by his mother and given during pregnancy) and recovered without treatment as is possible in some cases for the disease to "work its way out of the system "for a period of 4-6 years.
However, having had the disease oncenot mean they are immune for ever after. He then re-infected by her husband, Richard, passed to the fetus in utero. He was able to return half and went on to more children who were not affected by the disease.
Apparently, as a woman born healthy child suddenly goes through a period of more than 6-8 years, where he has a series of miscarriages, or neonatal death, stillbirth, syphilis is the most likely cause.
KassovitzThe law of 1875 states that "The gradual reduction in the intensity of spontaneous transmission of syphilis. So a number of births will be miscarriages or stillbirths, or children who die quickly unhealthy, unhealthy children survive and then Back to healthy children.
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that first appeared in 1490 in southern Europe and spread rapidly across the continent, where he was known as the French disease. Because of its extreme contagiousnesssymptoms and horrible, was not as feared as hell.
Many have said that Henry VIII are concerned and this has been demonstrated by the ulcer on his leg and his inability to father healthy children. This is not entirely born by the evidence - based on the law of Kassovitz. Catherine of Aragon was pregnant six times. She gave birth to four boys who lived for several months or were dead. Then he had a healthy daughter, the woman who was Bloody Mary, followed by anotherdaughter who died after a few weeks. At that time, Henry, the father of the illegitimate Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, who was dying at age 17. first daughter, Elizabeth Anne Boleyn, followed by two miscarriages. first pregnancy and were produced only Edward VI Jane Seymour, who, while not the strongest of the children, did survive until the age of 16 years.
It was not until 1928 and the advent of penicillin is a cure.
In late 1890s/early 20th, syphiliswas very common and highly contagious. Most people pass without even knowing they had. If the disease or the method of contraction had nothing to do with the sudden departure of Richard from his respectable job and lifestyle in Worthing, we'll never know, but certainly makes for some prurient speculation.
Statistics show that one in ten people in Britain at that time had the disease. So, if the sexual health expert said, "of all persons currently engaged ingenealogical research, at least 10% have a chance to find syphilis in 'their pedigree.
And 'certainly a very sobering thought.
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