General Chat

Just been trawling the deaths for refs, when I came across the following couple of names have not seen or heard of before..................... One lady had been named 'Flower'.................................... But the one I really loved was a baby girl who had been named 'Happy Elizabeth' which made me smile until I remembered it was the deaths I was looking at, then I just felt like crying. Jen

ooh.that is so sad Jen

I know Selina, I just had this mental picture of those poor parents who had been so happy when she was born, they called her happy, then lost her! Gawd it does make you want to bawl! Jen

oh..dont start me off.its sad when u learn things like that isnt it

It is Selina but she must have been a little smiler to have been named 'Happy'..........so I'll keep smiling for her. Jen

well,i'm glad they named her,as some didnt.but its so heart wrenching

True Selina and it is heart wrenching but, anyone and everyone who has seen her name will surely still smile............! Jen

def. i find it heart wrenching and great when i look around grave yards etc, and see child graves,the inscript. that parents had put on them, and sometimes lack of them

I haven't had to face that yet Selina. though thinking of it for next year, trying to arrange a trip with brother and cuz........several baby plots in mind too. Jen

a bit of advice...take plenty of tissues with u

I remember, just after I started doing my lookups, finding out that my GGGrandmothers first baby died at 5days old. I had tears running down my cheeks. She did go on to raise another 12 though.

I'll take tissues just in case...........but knowing me, I'll chicken out and let cuz take down the details etc........then again, she might be worse than me! Jen

take photos as well is a good idea.to me it felt more if u know what i mean

I'm glad about that Carol, both my grans lost a little girl each one between 3/6 months and one was stillborn after a house fire. Jen

Yes I intend doing Selina, a camera and the digital. I think you would feel the need to get all you could of them, knowing they were yours.........like reaching across infinity to gain that little extra knowledge of them. Jen

When I was little I was talking to my Gran,about my name being the same as hers. Tears started to run down her cheeks, when I asked her what was wrong she told me that I would have had an Aunt with the same name, but she was so small & beautiful that God wanted her for a cherub. I later found out that Aunt Caroline was prem.,only lived for a few hours & she was buried in the corner of the churchyard but the vicar would not let them have a stone or put flowers there. When I put flowers on my Grandsons grave, I think of how horrid it must have been for her not to be able to do the same for her little one.

that is sad carol.we have infants buried at the foot of others but no head stone,just on a need to know basis.so sad

My Mum was one of 11 and when an older sibling died age 3 in 1933 she was just put in with an unknown adult, So sad, Caz xxx

Jolly Sadd.