Have you ever found someone and wondered about them??

[myluck!]

Isn't such a loss sad
Amazing that the gravestone was erected

I now wonder is it possible that another child lived???

Oh the wonder of wonder!

[Finley 1]

1871 census shows them with just two children  (hopefully the same family)
William aged 8
and Mary Hannah  7 months??

xin

[Finley 1]

and just an 18 year old William in 1891

so it doesnt look like it...

1901 Allen is  aged 63 a widower boarding with the Bell family  and a picture framer.

xin

[Kevinshouse]

I am sure that all their children died. I too looked on various census to find out a little more about them. The gravestone is quite worn, but inside the church is a photograph that someone took a few years back before it got too bad. We often visit the church (my daughter lives nearby) and I look at the grave, those poor parents.
Kind regards Susan

[Finley 1]

Yes such a sad story    bless them all

xin

[rutht22000]

that's so sad.

I went down a line of enquiry of a possible link to my great great great grandfather only to find that my person that didn't turn out to be my ancestor and all of his 10 siblings died all before they turned 18.    Not one child of these poor parents lived. 

[elinga]

while trying to find the grave of my older brother who died aged 4 months in 1948, I discovered he was buried in a grave with 5 other infants who all died very young!
one surname was the same as mine but the other 4 were familiar!
I decided to investigate and discovered that one of the children was my dads sister whom I never knew had existed let alone died when so young and the other 3 were my dads cousins, who also died very young!
I still didnt know where they were buried as it was an unmarked grave, but  I eventually found them with the help of a cemetary superintendant.
my younger brother and I went to visit the grave and we were both very saddened that all these children had died and they were forgotten.
I think about them all the time and although I now  live abroad I will take flowers the next time I go!
Elinga

[Viktoria]

It is always sad when graves are forgotten and so nice when someone does remember.

Good for you, it is just what I would do and I don`t mind admitting it makes me feel a whole lot better when I do it.                                                                                                                               
I find it hard to think that my Mum, busy as she was never to my knowledge visited her parents` grave or those of her sisters, and there were three of whom two ( a 16 year old and a 3month old)died when Mum was 14 and another died when Mum was 34.
I used to visit and tend them and felt so sad that all the children of the big supposedly happy family
never did.Perhaps they preferred to keep the memories of when they were alive.
Thanks to another RootsChatter I have found the  four missing graves of Mum`s siblings( 2 babies died well before Mum was born). I don`t think they can have been visited for many many years, at least 80 and probably a lot longer.Viktoria.

[Kevinshouse]

My sister found this on the 1881 census - William Armitage  is the brother of Ann who married into our family. My sister decided to follow the siblings of Ann just out of interest. She found Ann's brother William as follows -
Normanton Wakefield Yorkshire
William Armitage 44 - Widow Coalminer
Maskell Armitage 16 Son
Albert Armitage 14 Son
Selina Armitage 14 Dau
Tom Armitage 9 Son
Annie Armitage 7 Dau
Ada Armitage 4
William 10 days
The poor man was widowed and his youngest child was only 10 days old. His wife Hannah died in the 1st quarter of 1881 aged 39 years. The baby died a few months later.

Regards Susan