This record comes from UK GRO Death Certificates, Year 1860, Quarter D, Volume 10B, Page 197, Line 2. Below are her death certificate and its transcription.
Superintendent Registrar's District Morpeth
Registrar's District Bedlington
1860. Deaths in the District of Bedlington in the County of Northumberland
No. 154
When Died Fourteenth October 1860 Guide Post Bedlington
Name and Surname Jane Doyle
Sex Female
Age 23 Years
Rank or Profession Wife of Andrew Doyle Coal Miner
Cause of Death Phthisis Pulmonalis Certified
Signature, Description, and Residence of Informant Andrew Doyle Present at the Death Guide Post Bedlington
When Registered Sixteenth of October 1860
Signature of Registrar Robert Harbottle Registrar
Comments and Observations
- Phthisis Pulmonalis is what we now call tuberculosis. In the 1800s there was no treatment and those who had it slowly wasted away. Today it can be treated with antibiotics.
- Based on her age at death, Jane was born in about 1837.
- "Guide Post" was mentioned twice in this document, first in response to "When Died" and again in "Signature, Description, and Residence of Informant." I wondered what Guide Post could be -- a post in a village (Bedlington?), a road sign, or...? Research tells me that Guide Post is (and probably also was at the time Jane died) a village located about 17 miles north of Newcastle and about halfway between Ashington and Morpeth. It's a minor fact but one that could be helpful in researching more about Andrew and the collieries where he worked. It's a place I would definitely add to a list of locations where he lived.
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