"Missing People"- early 1800s

[Waitabit]

Reading again on the" Old Mersey Times" site, as you do...looking for missing Family in shipping news & diasters,,I saw again the "Epidemics & Diseases" in early 1800s.

How would ayone ever know half of the names of the dead when there was such numbers dying?, perhaps away from home where no-one knew them.

Doubtless too mass burials.

Shipping disasters..unfound bodies & unknowns washed up on beaches..

Sorry to be brutal, but it all helps us not to feel too bad when we can't find a Family member, unlike the ones who were left behind & waiting back then.

[bumblebee]

When I am looking at the Lincolnshire parish burials in the archives I am always suprised by the number of 'unknown dead'. Particularly on the coastal villages, 'unknown man found drowned', unknown woman washed ashore' etc. People did not carry all the personal documentation that we do today, so no driving licence, bank cards etc to help identify people.

Bumblebee