1929 death of unknown child. Cruden .

[wilcoxon]

Deaths in the district of Cruden.

On the same page as another  death entry I spotted this sad event.
Not named infant, died probably between 15 th November and 9th December.
male, newly born.
This poor little soul was discovered in a quarry hole full of water at Stirlinghill  , Cruden, cause of death was given as exposure and lack of proper attention at birth.
He was buried on 26th December 1929 at Cruden.

[dowdstree]

How awful for a baby to die this way.

You can only hope that he did not suffer for too long.

The mother must have been really desperate or of unsound mind to abandon her new born in such a way. At least he was obviously given a decent burial.

The terrible events that we find inadvertently when researching.

Dorrie

[Lisajb]

I was checking Irish registers and came across a death record for an unknown female infant, aged approximately 2 weeks. Cause of death was strangulation

[marcie dean]

Found something similar in Edinburgh, a coastguard found the body of a woman and her newborn baby floating in the water nr leith docks, must be an unmarried woman who lost the will to live and took her baby with her, I've also been reading about the deprivation in Dublin and families dumping their offspring so that someone else would take them in and look after them

[brigidmac]

So sad .

Newspaper still us so much about the social circumstances of the time


.In the transcription of 1907. court case

Baby-trafficking by my greatgrandmother Lottie Roberts

An unmarried mother had declared to Herbert Smith aka Leo selwyn and lottie

  "That she'd rather throw herself in  river than have her baby put in a workhouse "

This is an example that 1 girl  carried out  this kind of plan


I'd like to have dates if your news article

Can some kind person copy the link to this case.  ..For Marcie

Or links to the newspapers .

There were some girls from Belfast   it's fascinating and actually happy 1 baby ended with gparents

At the trial witnesses testified on behalf of the couple ..Including 1  of the birth father's.and
Landladies and adoptive parents ...Who brought a little prepossessing girl to court ..Whereupon Lottie's tears trebled ...As this child was her very own!

So we know my nan.s half sisters name now and adopted family's name ....The search can resume...

They'd obviously vetted each couple but because money involved got 6 months hard labour