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| West Monkton, the parish church of St. Augustine, From geograph.org.uk, Author Barbara Cook, Aug 31, 2006 |
I made some discoveries this morning regarding to the family
of my great grandfather, Herbert Charles Saunders. (See my blogpost Herbert
Charles Saunders, 1884 to 1966, Part One). I was able to discover through www.freereg.org.uk that Herbert’s mother,
Mary Jane Goff Saunders, was buried in West Monkton in the churchyard of St.
Augustine on November 14, 1886, having died on November 8th. Also
buried there was the five-day-old Charles Saunders on October 30, 1886. We knew
from Mary Jane’s death record that she died of tuberculosis, but there was no
mention of the complications of childbirth. A family story stated that she had
died “in childbirth”. Here we have evidence that she died very soon after the
birth of her last son, Charles, so it is possible that childbirth was a factor
in her death. So, we know now that Mary Jane had another son, Charles, who was
born alive. I was able to locate records through the birth and death indexes
which correspond to the burial record for Charles, and I may send for one or
both of them.
