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« on: Wednesday 31 May 23 04:17 BST (UK) »
Miscarriages are sometimes the reason for gaps in births of children.
On a similar note, it only occurred to me the other day possible reasons why certain individuals in our trees didn't marry and/or have children. I'm sure we've all got these ancestors. In the past, I had mostly assumed I just hadn't found a marriage yet. But reading a newspaper article from 1824 where ot mentioned that two of a particular couple's children were "idiots", and one of those was also "crippled", it made me think. How many of those ancestors in our trees who only have a baptism and a burial were physically or mentally handicapped in some way? Or even perhaps attracted to the same sex?