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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Need Birth/Death reference 1940's - JACKSON
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:35:56 +0100
References: <02e701c58ec1$ae488df0$1c4f8b90@lindahardy>


In article <02e701c58ec1$ae488df0$>, Linda Hardy
<> writes
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to help my cousin find any information about her possible natural
>mother who died in childbirth in either 1941 or 1942 possibly in St Albans,
>Hertfordshire, her name was:
>
>Gertrude JACKSON died 1941 or 1942 during childbirth, had a daughter Sonia
>
>Do not know what happened to Sonia
>
>Can anyone help find Gertrude "Gertie" JACKSON's death in either one of these
>years 1941 or 1942 or the birth of girl named Sonia JACKSON in either one of
>those years.

As the official record has shown that there is no such event (either) in
St Albans, it does open the rest of the information from this source to
question. Perhaps the place is Birmingham - a lot of mothers were
evacuared from anwhere near London because of the bombing; perhaps the
year date is wrong by one or two.
Possibly the baby was not registered as Sonia at all - how did the
knowledge of this name arise if the infant was taken into care right
away? Maybe the mother intended to call the baby Sonia, but as she died,
this did not happened, and the infant is registered as 'female' or Jane
or Mary or anything else which appealed to the social services
equivalent or hospital at the time.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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