The age at death is confusing as Peter Joakim Olaus Brithanusen M9GM-CSJ was born 16 February 1863 a
Peter Joakim Olaus Brithanusen is not listed in the 1875 Census of this family. And several younger siblings are named Peder Joakim 1869, and Peter Oluf 1870. I'm assuming the first child passes away before 1875 census. I have birth records for all three boys in the FS record. I also have a death record For Peder Joakim 1869. So it looks like only Peter Oluf 1870 survived. In the death record for Peter Joakim Olaus Brithanusen the farm Vadseth is listed, and the death and burial dates, but no parents. And his age seems to be 30 Ug?? in the official record, and 30 Ugmr/Ingmr? I'd like to know if there is any other information in this record that could link him to my possibly 6-7 month old infant. Could someone please translate this record with all pertinent information. Thanks
Official https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/2258/14267/20
Copy https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/16017/91788/12
and to further confuse things although these two records clearly state Brithanusen, the searchable transcribed record on Arkivverket lists him as Peter Joakim Olaus Brithanusdatter. LOL
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Peter Joakim Olaus Brithanusen of Vadseth farm died15 September 1863, bur. 19 August 1863 30 weeks old from whooping cough
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Thank you so much Liv! I appreciate you and your answers. I learn things from them. I learned the word for weeks now, and whooping cough. Valuable to a ward family history person. Thanks.
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Recently the Digitalarkivet has had a huge increase in the number of transcribed records. This has made searching for people a lot easier because the records are there. Unfortunately, the error rate in the transcriptions has also increased dramatically. I have been finding that you cannot trust the transcription if the contributor found in the right column is listed as "AMF - Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch." If the contributor listed is clearly a Norwegian group or the archives themselves, accuracy is much higher. You can report errors in the transcription in the upper right hand corner and someone has in this case.
Poor Peter, no wonder he died!
Here is my translation:
Entry 42. Died 15 September (1863), buried 19 ditto (September 1863), funeral/consecration of grave 27 September (1863) Vatne church.
Name: Peder Joakim Olaus Brithanussen. Age: 30 weeks (Uger, now spelled Uker). Residence Vadseth.
Cause of death: Kighoste og Halsesyge - Whooping cough and throat infection.
Going through the surrounding pages, you will see several little children dying of whooping cough and/or this throat illness. An online Norwegian medical dictionary states that this term "throat infection" is non-specific for any illness whose primary symptom is sore throat. Since so many children were dying from this, I would guess it was strep throat. They would not have called it scarlet fever unless the child had the rash that illness has. It could have been diphtheria, but that has such distinct symptoms that in 1863 I would have expected them to put "difteri."
As far as his age, being born 16 Feb 1863 plus 30 weeks (which could well be approximate) puts you at 14 Sept 1863, so the age given actually fits his birth date perfectly.
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