My great great grandmother, Charlotte Forrester Baker, died several days after giving birth to a son in February 1877 at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. The baby's father was James Baker . I have the baby's birth record but he was not named.
Charlotte also left two young daughters, one of which was my great grandmother. The family resided at 13 Strandville Avenue in Clontarf.
My question is what would have happened to this child? He would have had to have been nursed in order to survive….Would he have been given up to relatives or to an orphanage? He did survive the birth so he went somewhere…
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks..
Sara C.