Was Isaac Burman a guinea pig in cryogenic research?
In my research I have discovered a distant relative - Isaac Burman, a canal labourer, born in 1865 at Mavis Enderby in Lincolnshire.
It is amazing what can be discovered online but often the information raises many ponderous questions. Take, for instance, the Family Search Pedigree Resource File. It reveals that this man was certainly ahead of his time. He was a "toy boy", being 57 years younger than his wife (recorded as Ann White 1808 Hundleby). Probably realising that their days together would be short they must have been the first to make use of emerging frozen embryo technology. Ann's death is recorded as 1st Feb 1889 but why did she die at Boston Union House? Had the scientists (and her husband) abandoned her? Did they flee with the frozen embryos to Derbyshire and, if so, why?
These questions arise because Ann is shown as the mother of both Susan Rebecca Burman in 1893 and Beatrice Ann in 1899, both at Codnor in Derbyshire. If I order their birth certs why do I feel confident that Ann will not be named as their mother? Why cannot I find the registered marriage of George Burman and Ann White?
Conspiracy? Or a case of haphazard research which, sadly, gets copied into someone else's tree and corrupts the accuracy of countless other family trees?
