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« on: Friday 08 September 23 19:29 BST (UK) »
If I know about them of course they go on there
Recently at my greataunts funeral she was described as the youngest of 5 children, the eldest died prior to any of the other 4 being born, all of that family knew him as their eldest brother, despite never meeting him (he died at 2 months old - from jaundice)
My grandmother was going to call her eldest after him - until he was born requiring surgery and there was a real change he may not survive, and she felt that it was tempting fate to call him after his uncle who died as a baby
My nephew was stillborn, he's on my tree
Saddest I found though was my dad's greatgrandparents who had 11 children, only three of them reached their 2nd birthday, my greatgrandmother was the eldest of the children (and I assume was the one who brought up the youngest as her mother died in childbirth - she was 15, he died aged 18 months) - 2 of her own children died as babies. When I told my dad he said that was probably why she always kept herself detached from any babies in the family until they got to about 5 - she died the same month as her grandson died at a month old