The English community of Bagni di Lucca obtained permission by Carlo Ludovico di Borbone, Duke of Lucca, to build and organize in 1842 an autonomous burial ground. This British cemetery operated until the 1930s, with an amount of 137 burials. The “Register of Burials – Baths of Lucca”, preserved in the Guildhall Library of London (Ms. 22,910), accurately reports: name, sex, age, marital status and residence, date of burial, name by whom the ceremony was performed and notes about social status and profession of the dead. It was possible, using these data, to obtain some palaeo-demographic information about age of death, in general adult or mature, but with presence of children and babies, about seasonality of deaths, generally in Summer, and sometimes about the cause of death.
Considerations on Palaeodemography and Death in the British Community of Bagni di Lucca (19th -20th Centuries)
FORNACIARI, GINO;GAETA, RAFFAELE
2013-01-01
Abstract
The English community of Bagni di Lucca obtained permission by Carlo Ludovico di Borbone, Duke of Lucca, to build and organize in 1842 an autonomous burial ground. This British cemetery operated until the 1930s, with an amount of 137 burials. The “Register of Burials – Baths of Lucca”, preserved in the Guildhall Library of London (Ms. 22,910), accurately reports: name, sex, age, marital status and residence, date of burial, name by whom the ceremony was performed and notes about social status and profession of the dead. It was possible, using these data, to obtain some palaeo-demographic information about age of death, in general adult or mature, but with presence of children and babies, about seasonality of deaths, generally in Summer, and sometimes about the cause of death.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
