Genealogy Chat

Thank you Christine and Gwen.... Christine - Yes, LMA.....Ihave found them very, very helpful, bit only after I sent them a load of dosh!! Gwen.....That is useful to know....I saw those cemeteries on the list of ones in Stepney and will now know to try those first if the archivist at the hospital doesn't come up trumps! Thanks again Merry

Merry A lot of my rellies all lived in Stepney, Bethnal Green and when they died they all seem to be buried in Manor Park or the City of London Cemeterys. Both these have web sites and are very good if you email them requesting details, If you have a date of death they will search their records free of charge and they are always very informative. The London Hospital is in Whitechapel Road Whitechapel. The Borough for Certs for this district is Tower Hamlets. Hope this helps. Gwen

Thanks everyone for your input! Merry

Oooh Phoenix.....I found the right London Hospital on TNA link you gave me and now I've found an email addy for the Hopsital Archivist!! So, I'm going to begin with him! Please tell me if you think this isn't the best approach...... Merry

oooh, Phoenix.....thankyou.... Just going to have a look! Merry

I really don't know anything about London, Merry, but I would have thought somewhere like Kew would be able to tell you which hospital, if you give them the name of it exactly as it is on the birth/death certificate. If she was a premature baby (my husband's brother was born at 7 months) then I think one of the nurses would have baptised her. My sister was a midwife and worked with premature babies all her working life and I remember her saying that they often baptised babies who weren't expected to live. Have to go now - to watch the match - not that I'm a football fan particularly, but I would like to see England win, to put the male member's of the family in a good mood!!! Kath. x

Didn't they only put stillbirths in with someone else?? Maybe your right and that's what happened. I don't know much about the mum (dad's first wife!) except that she had had to have an emergency caesarian to save her life, but Pamela was too prem to survive. I doubt she was baptised, but MIGHT have been.....hard to say, isn't it? Merry

Hi Merry This is the website for finding hospitals: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/?source=ddmenu_search2 I don't know Stepney, but it should be covered by London Metropolitan Archives. I imagine that there is a cemetery for Tower Hamlets, but I really don't know the area.

The sad thing is that if you mum was in no fit state to make decisions then it may have been dealt by the hospital. They MAY have asked , or told her ,that we can take care of things and she in her state may have said OK. Then the child would have been placed into the coffin of an adult that was waiting to be collected from the hospital and buried with that adult. The hospital should have records as to what happened It was a common thing for babes to be dealt with like that unfortunately

I've googled Stepney Cemeteries and there seem to be such a lot. I wanted to contact the hospital to ask which one was nearest, but I'm not sure which hospital it is now? Merry

But where is the County Record Office for London?? I didn't imagine there was one??? Merry

Kath...It was reading your messages on the other thread that got me typing here! Hubby also had a brother who died aged 8 hours in 1940. We have done lots of searching is Southampton looking for his burial/cremation with no luck. Goodness nows what happened to him. He seems to have vanished into outer space. That's why I had left off ding aything about the London one until now......If I can't find a burial on my doorstep (so to speak!) how will I ever find one in London??! Merry

In that case Merry, the county record office should know which cemetery is closest to the hospital, and may be able to find the burial details for you, or tell you where to look. Kath. x

Wouldn't the hospital have had to organise things? Surely they wouldn't have bothered to have the burial or whatever, in Romford? My dad and his wife only lived there for a short time....it was near to his last posting of WW2. I would very much doubt it would have been a church burial (they were not religious at all!). Why couldn't ALL my rellies have lived in small villages! Her name was Pamela Burchill, Dea....she died 30th Nov 1946. Merry

Any names Merry?? Dea x

I think it might have been local to where they lived. Try the county record office and ask about burials in their local churchyard. See Gails thread 'stillborn query', for my own experience of a death aged 12 hrs. in 1946. Kath. x

I had a half-sister who died at ''London Hospital, reg sub-district of Whitechapel in the Metropolital Borough of Stepney'' in 1946, aged 12 hours...........I would like to try and find what happened to her, but am getting very confused as to which hospital this is and who I should contact. The baby's father (my dad) was out of the country when she was born and I gather her mother was very ill, so I would imagine the burial/cremation would be local to the hospital rather than where they lived in Romford, Essex. Any ideas anyone? Merry x