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From: "Delia Gleave" <d@deliagleave.f9.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [B&S] neighbours
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:12:10 +0100
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And the sad little story you have pieced together from those few dates is
probably far from a rare one. This is one of my reasons for tracing our
families, to try to understand how life for other people in other days
really was, not just their names and dates and jobs and addresses. Beats
fiction any day - thank you for telling us.

Delia



Their child was born in
> Sept. 1900 at
> 1 Cumberland Rd. and Daisy Louisa (the mother) died in Sept, 1900 also at
> 1 Cumberland Rd.
> Daisy Louisa's mother came to help with the baby (I suspect). and she died
> in January 1901
> at 1 Cumberland Rd. Edward must have moved to 20 Baptist St. about Feb.
> 1901 to be
> closer to his mother, so she could help with the baby, as he was at 20
> Baptsit St. on March 31st
> for the 1901 census. Sadly the baby died in July 1902.
>


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