Daily Ancestorålderdom
Ålderdom means "old age"; as a cause of death in a Swedish death book it means an elderly person died of general decline.
When an old person died without a clear illness, the pastor wrote ålderdom, old age, or ålderdomskrämpor, the ailments of old age. It tells you little about the actual cause.
Use it as a sign the person was considered old, and check the stated age in the death book against the birth entry, since a stated age can be off by a year or more.
As seen in a recordDeath and burial book of a Swedish parish, 1850s
Död 1858 19/1. Ålderdom. 86 år 4 mån.
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