Still trying to locate stillborn grave

[aghadowey]

Earlier thread on same topic here:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,477616.msg3367422.html#msg3367422

[LizzieW]

She was told to go away and forget about it but after 50 years she still hasn't. 

That's what used to happen.  When  my mum had her stillborn baby when she was already 42/43 (quite old to have a baby in the 1950s) she was just told to get pregnant again as soon as possible and that would help her forget.

Lizzie

[aggiebagwash]

As you know the date of the burial why not email as many local cemeteries as you can. I did that and found a grave with a stillborn baby buried the day after the known birth which was buried with a stranger. There were no burials in the following week or so and the cemetery staff were almost sure it was the right burial.

Grave records sometimes, but not always, will say if there's an unnamed child buried in a grave. (see Manchester Burials)

Hope it helps you find the grave.

Margaret

[gh03]

Thank you

[trish58]

Hi gh03

This must be a really hard time for your Mum & self, but don't give up.

We always knew we had a baby Sister who died at birth but that was all we knew, as children you don't think of these things but Mum always remembered baby Winifred Ann as my parents named her.

A couple of months ago Mum & I were sorting through old papers and we came across the burial certificate for our baby born in 1948, Mum & Dad paid 12 shillings & 6 pence for her funeral, I then applied for the "Stillborn" birth certificate on behalf of Mum, then contacted the Heaton cemetery in Bolton, luckily the burial record had the plot number on it.
The people at Heaton were great, and though baby Winifred is buried in a common grave at least we now know where she is.

Mum will be 91 in a few weeks time and this has been very emotional for her but also a healing time for the 7th child she had, the only one she lost.

Keep going in your search.

Trish

[gh03]

Thank you Trish.  Once I start searching for something I usually find it hard to admit defeat so I will keep looking.

[trish58]

Good for you, love determination

Trish

[gingernut1]

Hi

I think this is really sad and I do hope you find you little one soon.

Have you searched the Manchester burial records?  (you probably have)   I found a family still born by
putting in (or leaving blank) the first name as 'stillborn' and then the surname.    It brings up the grave details and who is in it.

I found a catholic grave in Southern (G1361)  with several children/babies in it.   I went to look on one of my expeditions but there is no stone or memorial there but at least we know where she is.

http://www.burialrecords.manchester.gov.uk/GenSearch.aspx

good luck

Ginger

[oldbones]

There will be a record of the burial of a stillborn child. He or she will be recorded as stillborn child of for example Mr and Mrs Smith with the address. I am only familiar with the burials of still born children in the Liverpool area. Have you contacted the hospital where the child was born and asked them which Cemetery they used?