Addletons in Loughborough

[diddymiller]

jusy back & library reopened so will be on the case soon..

Diddy

[diddymiller]

burials at L'boro burial ground sept 1857 - 1891 ( from fiche)

4/6/1865 Emma Selby  d/o Lucy, singlewoman  aged 14 days  Rectory Place
3/1/1874 Arthur Addleton s/o Wm & Lucy                  10 m     Dead Lane
19/12/1877 Eliza Ellen Addleton d/o Wm & Lucy         11m      Dead Lane
28/12/1878 Sarah Ann Selby d/o Lucy Addleton         15         Dead Lane

Any other dates you have i can check the original records but these are the only indexed ones.

Diddy

[delphinium44]

Thank you very much diddymiller. We now seem to have accounted with some certainty for 8 or possibly 9 of Lucy Addleton's children namely
Sarah Ann (Selby) b 1863 d 28/12/1878
Emma (Selby) b 5/1865 d 4 June 1865
Louisa Addleton b 1866 d 2/1900
William Henry b 1868 d 1934
Harriet b 1871
Arthur b 1873 d 3/1/1874
Clara b 1874
Eliza Ellen b 1877 d 19/12/1877

and possibly
Elizabeth b 1869 d 1869

So if Lucy herself was correct when she asserted in 1911 that she had had 16 children of whom 3 were living and 13 had died we are still missing 7. There were three living in 1911 (William Henry, Clara and Harriet) so she was right about that at least.

Lucy was 37 when Eliza Ellen was born in 1877 so in theory  she may have had several more years in which she could bear more children. I have not yet been able to analyse all the data to see if there are any other gaps where a full term baby could have been born in the earlier period. Today all children who are born alive have to be registered even if they die within a very short time. Does anyone know what was the custom and practice in the 1860/1870s? Would a baby which was born alive but died immediately after birth be registered or receive a normal burial?