I've been having some fun getting back into it. Man, people had hard lives back then. Even the wealthy were far from immune to the infant mortality rate, etc.
I always knew my greatx3 grandmother died in a shipwreck with one of her daughters and a granddaughter. Here is where it gets creepy. She was on the SAME SHIP five years earlier bringing her husband's body back from Paris. Wait, it gets eerier! With her and the body, in 1893, was the daughter who would die with her on that same ship in 1898 and, wait for it, she was pregnant with the granddaughter that would also die. The son-in-law/husband/father, variously, who was with them? He would die just months after the 1893 trip.
I wrote a blog about it. With pictures.
http://catspurrfectreads.blogspot.co...ip-batman.html