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From: Pauline Dodd <>
Subject: Re: BLACK DEATH - NORFOLK
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 12:06:09 +0100


At 16:41 02/04/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Alan,
>Thank you for the kind Email reply. Perhaps someone else on the list is
>knowledgable, as
>this seems to really be a very genealogicaly influencing topic ( as it
>may account for the disapearance of entire families almost instantly)
>Looking forward to hearing from anyone.
>Best Regards,
>Thomas Gould
>Grand Island, New York
>
>
A quote from "The Rows of Great Yarmouth" by Colin Tooke:

"....a series of disaters that led to a rapid decline in the town's
fortunes.The harbour exit became blocked in 1336, a replacement(the first
Haven) blocked in 1346 and two years later the plague, or Black Death,
killed almost two thirds of the inhabitants, reducing a population of some
10,000
to about 3000....."

Kind regards

Pauline:-)

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