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From: "Chris Bartlett" <>
Subject: RE: [OEL] 15 & 16C Statistics
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:18:38 +1200
In-Reply-To: <BAY106-F142ABAC77EEFCA54493773CD840@phx.gbl>


Hello All

I agree with Liz on this one and had started to write something
similar. Most of the records I have for those who lived past 25
lived into their late sixties and in the next couple of centuries
several into their eighties and one to 100.

The lack of excessive food and doing physical work probably
worked in their favour.

Regards
Chris Bartlett


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liz Parkinson [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 8:04 a.m.
> To:
> Subject: RE: [OEL] 15 & 16C Statistics
>
> 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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