Genealogy Chat

My mother had 7 or 8 siblings all who were either stillborn or died shortly after birth, due to Grandmother being rhesus negative. Looking through deaths, and looking for 0s. Makes you realise your own mortality.

Carol, I am AB rhesus negative, (3% of the population)my husband is O Positive ( so common, as I do tell him). You are right my grandmother lost a boy, my Mum lost a boy my Aunt lost a boy I ended up with two boys one after the other thanks to the anti D I was given when they were born. I then had a girl and again anti D. We are a very lucky generation, wonder will the generation after see anything that happened to us and think how lucky they are? Pat x

Seeing so many children die so young is sad, and we are so lucky today with all the advances in medical science. Going off on another tangent though.....I find searching burials both sad and fascinating......morbid curiosity I guess, but the info that's sometimes added can make seaching for that elusive ancestor a bit more interesting and helps to keep me awake! In one register I read about the burial of a woman who had been murdered by her husband......he'd lost the plot one day and literally split her head in two with a scythe....then made a run for it. He was caught and hung within days of the murder. Neither were 'mine', but it's stuck in my mind ever since. Cass

I discovered that after 1927, stillbirths were required to be registered. I have found a birth and death entry for one brother. The place and mothers maiden name match. Just got to find the others now. My mums memory is a bit fuzzy about it, she is 80 though