Amy Tarr

[lozaras]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Amy Tarr

Date and place of birth
25th October 1882, South Knighton, Ilsington, Devon

Names of parents
Peter Tarr & Elizabeth Luscombe Willcocks

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
unknown

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Frederick James Powell Horwell
21st January 1902 in Highweek, Newton Abbot
Witnesses were her dad, her brother and her husband's sister

Occupation(s) - if any
housewife

Military service - if any

Addresses where they lived
Her family and her husband's family were neighbours even before she was born.
South Knighton
Ilsington
1902-1911 Darracombe Cottages, Highweek
1958 Belstone, 54 Highweek Village, Newton Abbot


Date, place and cause of death
9th June 1958 at 52 Barton Road, Torquay (her son's house)
Myocardial degeneration, arterio sclerosis & senile vaginitis

Date and place of burial / cremation.
probably Highweek??

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable


Memorial inscription - if any

[lozaras]

The certs (birth & death) arrived at the weekend. I've updated the posting.

Does anyone know anything about "senile vaginitis". It doesn't sound like it should be on a death cert - can it kill you?

[kiterunner]

Are you sure that's what it says, Sarah?

[Langley Vale Sue]

Wikipedia mentions senile vaginitis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginitis

I wouldn't have thought that alone would kill her, but myocardial degeneration and arterio sclerosis are common causes of death. Maybe whoever signed the certificate was being extra thorough!

[lozaras]

Thanks Sue;

From wikipedia:
Atrophic vaginitis (or Senile vaginitis) usually causes scant vaginal discharge with no odour, dry vagina and painful intercourse. These symptoms are usually due to decreased hormones usually occurring during and after menopause.

It's a very strange thing to put on a death cert I'd have thought...;(

It's typed really clearly:

Ia.Myocardial degeneration.
b. arterio sclerosis.
II senile vaginitis.

She'd been a widow for some time, I can't even see why the doctor would know.:eek: