Back in 1890's would

Joanne

Joanne

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Back in the 1890's when someone died would they have had the means,ie cold storage,to ship them back to the mother land and would they have bothered back then?
Think i know answer to this but...:rolleyes:
 
Not sure but there was a means of cooling by way of ammonia. In a ship? Not sure about that either. There must have been someway of cooling food on a ship in the late 1890's surely.
 
I do not know the definitive answer but, thinking this through....

Say someone died in Australia, for instance. By the time that the family in Britain found out - by letter, which could take several weeks to arrive - to send any money to pay for the transportation of the body, a very long time, possibly months, will have passed. To keep a body in cold storage all of this time would not really be feasible - and also would cost rather a lot!

Also, if it was the summer, the body would probably need burying before too long!

Although telegraphy had been invented, it was not necessarily everywhere, so communication would still have been rather slow.

Just my thoughts....
 
I would also have thought that the body would've been embalmed as late as the 1890s.

It does seem a lot of expense and effort... unless it was the person's last wish.
 
Thankyou Jan,Peregrine and Bay horse,and I did,nt think of embalming :headbang:. Reason for my question was "found" a rellie on a tree and they had she died in Michigan,USA but was buried back in England. My thinking was ' I don,t think so !"
 
The USA had embalming during the Civil War (1860's), and it was common to ship some bodies back via railroad. I don't know about sea travel... perhaps if it was wintertime?
 
Do you have a burial record or is it just a memorial inscription. I have come across several memorials to folk who died elsewhere
 
Londoner I have her burial details with rest of her family,she never married. I think "someone " just found a name and added the info to their tree as they did'nt even have the parents listed. And I became curious as whether transporting such a distance was feasible
 
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