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Stillborn babes

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ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 17 Feb 2011 22:51

There was a thread recently on this, can't find it but in two papers this week I have read re trying to find babies and that as far back as 1937 a mother have been able to trace the burial of her baby. There were several cases like this. Apparently if you check with the hospital and see what burial ground they use - you can then check with the burial records. In several instances they were able to actually pinpoint where the little ones were. A home birth try nearest cemetery/local undertakers.

Thought it might give a ray of hope to anyone in this position.

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 18 Feb 2011 01:28

HI CHRIS
SOMETIMES GOING TO A CEMETARY NEAR WHERE BIRTH WAS
THEY MAY STILL HAVE THE RECORD OF WHO WAS IN WHAT GRAVE
I WENT TO OURS 20YRS AGO AND MANAGED TO FIND SOME BURIALS
IN PAUPER GRAVES
UNFOURTUNATLY MY TWIN WAS NEVER REGISTERED SO I WILL NEVER
FIND HIM

Researching:
FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 18 Feb 2011 07:47

Chris, was it my thread about the Limbo babies you were thinking about?
In case it was, I have nudged it on General Topics

Lizx

Phyll

Phyll Report 18 Feb 2011 10:48

Many babies were buried with other people and not recorded. I can't find brother because he was put in with someone else.

Researching:
Newman, Pavey, Sinden from Sussex. Latham from Bucks & Herts

ElizabethK

ElizabethK Report 18 Feb 2011 11:16

I have always been loathe to to get involved in this topic but...

In 1950 I trained as a midwife at a well known London Maternity Hosptial and stillborn(unbaptised) babies were,as Phyllis says,put in with someone else-the comment being that way they did get a Christian buriel

Lady Cutie

Lady Cutie Report 18 Feb 2011 11:27

n for later on
Hazelx

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 18 Feb 2011 11:40

These articles also mentioned the fact that even if they were (as usually happened) with someone else they could be traced. One lady found her little one in with 3 other little ones. Liz will put this on your thread.

Sue In Yorkshire.

Sue In Yorkshire. Report 18 Feb 2011 13:18

Chris,,,on General I have nudged a thread up that I think is the thread you are talking about..
It's Title is Memorial....

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 18 Feb 2011 13:55

Have posted on there.