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From: "Liz Parkinson" <>
Subject: RE: [OEL] 15 & 16C Statistics
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:04:11 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CCEJILOPMDICBMMNNJGPEEOAFCAA.von@yvonnepurdy.free-online.co.uk>


Life expectancy is a funny one, because so many babies died in the first
year of life that it drastically skews the figures. It makes the apparent
life expectancy as an average seem low, but in fact if you survivied early
childhood you often survived to a good age, especially if you had a lower
risk job - lead miners for example died early of lead poisoning, but farm
workers were out in the open air, had cottages to live in, and the
opprotunity to grow their own food and perhaps keep a pig. I have
realtives who lived to be 70+

Liz
>
> >>On Sunday, 18 June 2006, Don Tomkinson wrote:
>
>I'd be grateful if someone could give me the statistics for average
>ages of marriage and life expectancy in the 15th. and 16th. centuries.<<
>


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