Quite a sensitive topic but I am hoping someone can help me.
My great Aunt died from cardic failure and sepsis in childbirth at the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital in Newcastle in 1935 and she was then buried at Blaydon Cemetery. I have a death certificate to confirm this.
Thus far I have not been able to find any record of a birth, death or stillbirth for this child and I have relied on the memory of one uncle who has told me that the child was born and buried at the hospital.
I know that hospitals had mass graves for stillborn babies but am not sure why the child would not be buried with the mother if she was also deceased?
There are three possibilities I can think of re the child...
1. The mother was in the early stages of labour when the she passed away and the child was not actually born.
2. The child was extremely premature and the body was incinerated.
3. The child was born and buried but not with the mother for some reason I have yet to find.
Does anyone know if the Princess Maternity Hospital had a burial ground and where I could find records of burials there or if there is anyway I can find records of stillbirths at the hospital?
I know this will seem irrelevant to a lot of people as it was so long ago but if this child was born I would like to know whether it was male or female and put him or her in their rightful place on my family tree.