Sometimes you come across stories from the past that are heart breaking. I recently came across the brother of a direct ancestor (so an uncle of sorts) who lost four children in the month of April 1889! I am researching to see what might have caused this – there was a cholera outbreak in England around then so I have requested a copy of a death certificate for one of the children to see what cause of death is listed.
Even more heart breaking – I found the baptism register for the parish where the family lived and there were four more children of various ages baptised that month and year, one of which died a few months later. Makes me wonder if all the children were sick or dying and the family frantically had the sick ones baptised before something happened to them.
You might find things like this and it brings to mind what our ancestors may have been going through in their lives.
Across the Pond 