I am researching my grandmother Ada Cox b1896 in Drayton near Daventry. She lived No 18 School Street which no longer exists. She was the youngest of 4 children, with 2 older brothers (aged 3 and 5) and an elder sister (aged
. Her father Edward Cornelius Cox was a miner and lived in Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton in 1893 and I would like to know what brought him to Drayton? On Ada's birth certificate he has the occupation of tunnel miner so would that be to do with the expansion of the railway system? After the birth of Ada I can find no trace of her mother or father whatsoever as in 1901 Ada and her sister are living with their maternal grandmother in Bedworth and the 2 brothers are sadly in Foleshill workhouse. Edward may have been working on the Catesby railway tunnel where many people died of Smallpox apparently. Does anyone know what the burial practices were for deaths of such infectious diseases?