Person:Reuben Tyler (5)

1837 - Labourer of Garboldisham. (Harriet's marriage)

1841 - With 2nd wife and 5 children at Mill Pond, Garboldisham. Agricultural labourer, aged 40, born in the county.

1842 - Tenanted Millpond Farm. (472 on tithe mpo 1842)

1851 - With wife and 5 children at Mill Pond, Garboldisham. Agricultural labourer, aged 54, born at Riddlesworth, Norfolk.

1861 - With wife, 4 children and a boarder (Frederick EDWARDS, farmer's son, aged 1, born at Garboldisham) at Upper Street, Garboldisham. Carter, aged 66, born at Knettishall.

1876 - Tenanted plot 226, Blo Norton with Widow Cooke on Charity Map 1876 (2 acres).

1876 - Reuben died of Lupus. The informant was Elizabeth BLACK who was present at Death.

Lupus, also called Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (or SLE), is a disease that can affect all parts of the body. The skin, joints and kidneys are commonly affected and it may develop very slowly and be present for many years. Lupus is commonest in young women, but men and older people can get it as well. It is also more common in Asian, Hispanic or Black people than in white people. There is medical treatment that may help control Lupus, but there is no cure. Lupus is the Latin name for wolf and was used for this condition because, before the days of drug treatments, the skin disease could eat away at the face and leave extensive damage, as if it had been attacked by a wolf. The full name is 'systemic Lupus erythematosus' (SLE). Systemic means it can affect all parts of the body and erythematosus means the skin can have a red colour around the rash. Drug treatments mean that the rash which gave Lupus its name is not seen nowadays, or can be controlled in its early stages. Not everyone with Lupus gets a skin rash, but the name has stuck!