On 11 May
Charles Gilchrist my 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire in 1830
Samuel Woodward another 2 x g.g.uncle was baptised at St Laurence Church, Frodsham, Cheshire in 1817
William Wane my 6 x g.grandfather was baptised at Aldingham, Lancashire in 1690
Jonathan Benson, my 1st cousin 5 times removed was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1800
Ethel Whittaker (nee Wright) the 1st wife of my husband’s father, (so mother to his 2 half brothers) died in Denton, Lancashire in 1935. The cause of her death was cardiac failure and pneumonia. Interestingly, the story my husband and his stepbrothers were told (who were 4 & 3 when their mother) was that she had had a baby girl called Olwen who had died soon after birth and that Ethel was so distraught that she died too. The truth is she did have a baby girl called Olwen who died aged about 6 weeks of asphyxia in a convulsion due to gastric disturbance, but this was 2 years before her mother died. I guess her 2 sons would have been too young to remember when their baby sister was born and how close that was to the death of their mother.
William Benson my g.g.uncle was buried at St Mary’s Parish Church, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire in 1859. He was the little one who died of whooping cough of 4 weeks duration, when he was just under 7 weeks old.
Elizabeth Howard my husband’s 2 x g.g.aunt married William Duffin at St James Church, Toxteth, Liverpool in 1834