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My sister Julie Pittaway January 1968 only lived for 30 MIns,
You were born and died on the same day but in our hearts you will always stay
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Remebering baby Herbert who died aged 15 days in 1917 and would have been my Uncle also all of the babies who died under 6 months old who were born to my G Grandparents , I'm so pleased to have found you after so long , RIP.
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VICTOR HUTCHISON
1946- 1948
THE BROTHER I SHOULD HAVE HAD
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My Dad's brother William, born 7/71904 died same day.
My mother's brother George died aged 3 months in 1918.
My Grandfather's nine siblings who died at birth in the late 1800's, not even named.
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I have quite a lot from my tree, I'm afraid. Have shed tears many a time upon discovering yet another lost child...
Charles Wm Sanger 1840 - 1849 (cholera)
Christopher Sanger 1842 - 1843 ("Inflammation")
James Christopher Sanger 1847 - 1851 (Small Pox)
Charles Alfred Sanger 1864 - 1866 (Convulsions)
George Sanger 1866 - 1881 (TB)
(all the above were brothers of my Grt Gt Grandfather - although some were his half-brothers).
Then my Grt Grt Grandfather lost several children himself (my Grt Gran never mentioned any of them to any of her descendants):
Harry Sanger 1886 - 1887 (Scarlatina)
Christopher John Sanger 1889 - 1890 (Bronchitis)
Rosetta Sanger 1891 - 1896
Eliza Sanger 1893 - 1894 (exhaustion, broncho pneumonia)
From my Westwood branch (my grt grandad's siblings):
Catherine Westwood - Oct 1886 - Nov 1886 (Diarrhea, Convulsions)
Martha Westwood - May 1893 - Dec 1893 (Enteritis)
Michael Westwood - Oct 1894 - Oct 1894 (died aged 29 days - Marasmus and Convulsions) - this poor wee tot lost his mum at birth!
From my Ingles branch (my Grt Grt Grandma Mary Ingles (the mother of the above Westwood children) lost these siblings):
Andrew Inglis - 1855 - 1855
William Ingles - 1856 - 1859 (Diarrhea)
Daniel Ingles - 1864 - 1865 (Scrofulous Glandular abscess on the neck)
I have so many more, the list goes on and on but I'll stop there as it's quite upsetting when you see them all listed together like this.
They were all forgotten children until I found them by doing this research and now they are united with their families on the family tree, where they rightly belong.
Athena
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Thanks for this thread.
Sometimes people ask me why I want to trace my family history. One of the reasons is that I don't want my ancestors to be forgotten, even their names unknown.
One such ancestor, my great aunt Charlotte died in St. Pancras, London, in sad circumstances, saving her baby sister's (my grandmother's) life.
Charlotte was asked by her mother to take her young sister, aged 2, to the University College Hospital for treatment for an eye problem. On the way back, Charlotte, with the baby in her arms, was crossing Euston Road, and was knocked down by a horse drawn omnibus, these were quite large vehicles, with two decks, and the driver felt the wheels go over her. At the last second, knowing that she would be hit, she threw her little baby sister as hard as she could, out of danger.
Charlotte did not die immediately, and her inquest report states that even though badly injured with a broken jaw, multiple rib fractures and vomiting blood, she asked if the baby was hurt.
Charlotte died, in the same hospital to which she had taken the baby for treatment, from pneumonia. She was just 13 years old.
If she hadn't thrown that baby clear, I wouldn't be here. So thank you, dear Charlotte, and you are not forgotten.
I'd also like to remember other ancestors who died in infancy.
Sarah, My GGAunt, who died aged 2 from diarrohea. Particularly sad as her father was tragically killed whilst her mother was expecting Sarah.
Sarah's mother, my GG Grandmother, married again 10 years later and died from septicaemia after giving birth to a baby boy, George, 6 days before. Sadly the baby died at only 4 days old, his death certificate states he was found suffocated in bed. I believe his mother, in her delerium, possibly laid on him.
And finally, little Edward, my uncle who died at 4 months of a brain haemorrage after suffering diarrohea vomiting and pneumonia.
RIP little ones.
Dee
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For my mother's sister:
Phoebe Sybille Mocock - 1920-1924. She had cerebral palsy - although as I have not sent off for her death certificate I am not sure how she died.
Jill
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