I checked with a Doctor friend and he said that sebility or anti-sebility is
an old term sometimes used in connection with any epidemic. The word could
also be seeability which is the agonized last breath of a person who is
dying. Seeability is not acually a cause of death just the result. The
actual cause could be a flu or cholera, or any other desease that may have
been an epidemic of the time. Considering the husband, wife, and daughter
all died in or around the same time an epidemic is the most likely cause.
I googled in Epidemics of 1866 and there was a cholera epidemic in both the
UK and the USA about May of 1866.
http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/bop1833/browse/12_4.html
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/early_cholera.html
Here are a couple of interesting websites.
Barbara Ann Phillips
bphil1(a)earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "I Thompson" <joscyn(a)hotmail.com>
To: <wls-merionethshire(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MER] FW: Cholera in 1866
Could be "debility". Any guess as to the first two words?
I must say that the copperplate can be INCREDIBLY difficult to read - I
spent ages looking for a "Zolum" farm in Aberdaron only to find it was
actually "Ystum".
Ian
London
> > Does anyone know if there was a cholera epidemic in Llanycil in 1866 ?>
> > > David Jones a farmer from Streflyn and his wife and daughter all > >
> > died the> > spring of 1866.> >> >> >> > I have his
death certificate
> > but cannot read the cause of death. > > They have> > _____ ______
> > sebility certified listed as the cause of death. > > Can anyone> >
make
> > a quess as to that cause of death.
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