Still Born.

[rot1927]

Hi, does anyone know how I would be able to locate where a stillborn would have been laid to rest.

name Ellen Brocklesby  -  1907,  maybe Wrangle or Old Leake Lincolnshire?


Thanks.

[KGarrad]

As I understand - usually in a convenient, already open, grave.

[stanmapstone]

How do you know she was still born? A still born child would not usually have a name, as a still born child could not be baptised.

Stan

[rot1927]

Ha, well my grandmother was with child belonging to another when she married my grandfather?
I found Ellen Brocklesby B.1807 D.1807 in the same last quarter Oct Nov Dec the same last quarter my grandparents married, I am assuming they married first then lost the child afterwards!

I had been told the child was conceived out of wedlock?

[rosie99]

Is this the birth you mean 

BROCKLESBY, ELLEN       mmn HOWSHAM     
1907  Dec Quarter in BOSTON  Volume 07A  Page 388

[rot1927]

That is the one I believe..  Rosie99..


they named the girl Brocklesby so I think married before she was born so to speak!

[stanmapstone]

You say that you found  B.1807 D.1807 in the same last quarter Oct Nov Dec The term quarter Oct Nov Dec  only refers to civil registration entries which did not start until 1st July 1837

Stan

[LizzieW]

I was thinking that it would be very rare for someone still to be alive who had a grandmother who married in 1807 

[rosie99]

It would not have been a 'stillbirth'  though the baby could have just lived less than a day

BROCKLESBY, ELLEN       age 0     
1907  Dec Quarter in BOSTON  Volume 07A  Page 229

I see the marriage was Househam and not Howsham