I was googling, and ran across a geneology site that I had never found before. Actually saw a picture of my grandfather as an infant, and looked at the interesting stuff on the site.. My grandfather apparently was from Northern Ireland..not southern, as I had always thought.. His family hailed from Armagh via Ontario Canada. he and his twin sister were born July 22, 1890..
My grandmother, who he married in Feb 1910, gave birth to 9 children between 1911 and 1928..Three lived..
They buried
Emma 1911 lived one day
John 1912 stillborn...my aunt was born that same year and lived
Rose 1914 stillborn...
Francis 1916 stillborn
Mary 1917 lived 2 days
Cecelia 1920 stillborn
My aunt was born in 1912
My uncle was born in 1922 and lived
My mother was born in 1928
As crappy as we all think the care is, at least modern women do not have to endure this.. I cannot imagine how she did not lose her mind..
When I was a child, I ran across a box of old photos of the babies.. They dressed them up, had their picture taken in the carriage and then buried them:cry: