Emma Hume Simpson, wife of Arthur Barwick Simpson. Did Emma die in 1880?

[rkive82]

Thank you AVM and Omega.
  I haven't been making the most of my FindMyPast searches, so I'll use that tip in future. I found the entry using that method.

  I haven't seen a Hume Family Bible. I did see a baptism entry for Emma but her birth date was not recorded. I shall explore the alternatives if a response is not forthcoming.

  Of interest is that the grandson of Emma Simpson née Hume stated that she died in child birth i.e. giving birth to Olive Hume Simpson, which was on 22nd Sept 1878. But she went into the Asylum at Ticehurst in Feb 1880 and died in May 1880. Could the Asylum have taken her because she was infirmed or was she losing her faculties?

Richard

[seahall]

Hi Richard.

Here is the baptism for Emma.

Scaldwell P.C. Northants
Pg. 26, No. 206
August 7th 1837
Emma - William Wheler Hume and Lucy of Scaldwell, Clerk, the ceremony
was preformed by W.W. Hume

Sandy
 

[seahall]

Sorry just read form page one and you already now that.

Sandy

[seahall]

Marriage
7 Apr 1864

Age: 36
St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England"Simpson-Hume On the 7th inst. at St Mary Magdalen, St Leonards-on-Sea, the Rev Arthur Barwick Simpson to Emma, daughter of the Rev William Wheler Hume, incumbent of the above parish." from the Bucks Herald on 16th April 1864

Sandy

[rkive82]

Thanks for the information and the hugs Sandy.

  All I have left to discover then is the birth date for Emma. I may post again on the Northants. page and get more data for her parents and that may satisfy me without looking back any further.

  And I still wonder - "Of interest is that the grandson of Emma Simpson née Hume stated that she died in child birth i.e. giving birth to Olive Hume Simpson, which was on 22nd Sept 1878. But she went into the Asylum at Ticehurst in Feb 1880 and died in May 1880. Could the Asylum have taken her because she was infirmed or was she losing her faculties?"

Thank you
Richard

[sillgen]

Have you checked to see if the Ticehurst Asylum records are in the Record office?  Worth thinking about.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=Ticehurst+asylum

[avm228]

As to why she was in the asylum - only its records (if they survive) can tell you that.  Sometimes women were admitted due to postnatal depression (not necessarily all that soon after giving birth), which may explain the supposed link to childbirth. 

Her death certificate would of course tell you the cause of death which may or may not be informative as to any long-term conditions.

[rkive82]

Thank you AVM. I'll see if that branch of the family would like to buy the death certificate.

Richard

[seahall]

The records of the Asylum are on-line. I have trawled through them for the last hour.

I can not see Emma mentioned although I looked at many.

Sandy