Cause of death query (cor?)

lenahlene — Wed Aug 19, 2026 10:59 am

Author: lenahlene

Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2026 10:59 am

I’ve come across a little batch of records which seem to have ‘Cor’ as part of the cause of death and I have no idea what it means or its relevance, as it appears both in the originals and the bishops copy, and the deaths seem to be mostly children but the causes differ. In some cases, the cause of death in the original is simply given as ‘cor’ but the bishop’s copy adds scarlatina. But this word appears in pretty much every death entry for about 6 months, and then disappears and I haven’t seen it anywhere else in the records. Most of the deaths are ‘cur’ or ‘cur et scarlatina’ but not all, there is one ‘cur et convulsiones’, but where ‘scarletina’ is given as the cause of death elsewhere in the books, it’s not accompanied by ‘cur’

These are from 1875, the scans are on FamilySearch film 2037644, image 181 for the original; and the bishop’s copy is film 4945071 images 677 and 678.

Anna Landkammer d.28th Dec is one of the ones which has ‘scarlatina’ added in the bishop’s copy entry but not in the original.

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Cause of death query (cor?)