I've found several great aunts and uncles who died in childhood or infancy
and who were largely unknown to the rest of the family. Sentiment was
apparently an unaffordable luxury for Famine Irish emmigrants in Boston and
Welsh coal miners in rural Ohio. Shed a tear for them now but memorialize
them by helping children in need today like the AIDS orphans in Africa.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins(a)gmail.com>
To: <MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Mon] Shared Graves Question
Shirley save your tears for the living poor whose babies and
children
die every few seconds world wide
When you read parish rgisters of about 150 years ago
during the cholera epidemic
or of infant mortality at about 50% is not uncommon
you will need to see that death is as natural as birth
Hugh W
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On 4/29/05, WLSML(a)aol.com <WLSML(a)aol.com> wrote:
> Mark
>
> I hope you don't mind me asking you who you got in touch with regarding
> the
> above. I ask this question because I cannot find out where my gr
> grandparents
> were buried. I think they died approximately in 1903 and 1910, William
> and
> Ann James, Christchurch, Caerleon, Monmouthshire then, Gwent now. I have
> tried
> to get their birth certificates from Newport, but they say they haven't
> got
> them. Then I ordered one and got it wrong.
>
> Going by the 1901 Census, they were living in 35 ? Cottage, Caerleon
> Village, Christchurch, Caerleon, Mon. Now I want to find out if they were
> buried in
> the church in Christchurch, Caerleon, they lived in the same area on the
> 1881
> Census.
>
> I had great assistance from the Thornhill Reception Service for Cathays
> Cemetery. I sent a request for my grandmother's burial information, they
> sent
> information back to me telling me that a baby six weeks old was buried
> in 1903
> and my grandmother was buried with him in 1918. I was shocked because my
> father never mentioned that there was a baby brother who died before he
> was born,
> but then I don't expect he ever knew. They sent me a folder will all the
> information copied, and put in a shiny folder with the heading 'Cardiff
> tracing
> your Heritage.' It was a time for tears.
>
> If you could let me know who or how you contacted the Cemeteries
> Department,
> I would be grateful.
>
> Shirley
> Cornwall
>
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