Notice also that little Florence Alice PETHER died at 2 years of age in St Saviours, 1884 on free BDM. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Price" <genetree@tpg.com.au> To: <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 7:36 PM Subject: Re: [MDX] BENNETT/NICHOLLS/PETHER > At 06:25 PM 23/07/2010, you wrote: >>Hi Graham >> >>The Florence M(ary) born in Mortlake is out of the frame > > Oh dear, looks as if perhaps one of the others, perhaps Caroline born > and died in the same year could be on the frame. Oh, does it not > cramp the heart to see these things, births and deaths within the > same quarter and knowing that the mother also died at the same time? > It screws me up each time I see something like this. Hurts. Surely > mothers to be these days are exceptionally grateful for all the > medical help they get, unlike in the 1870s? So sad. > Graham > > > ************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Middlesex_County_UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

At 07:58 PM 23/07/2010, you wrote: >Notice also that little Florence Alice PETHER died at 2 years of age >in St Saviours, 1884 on free BDM. >Jan Ahh, so sad. How does one deal with all of this, children dying so soon after birth and mothers passing on during childbirth! Should be not be eternally grateful that we now live in a modern word of caring obstetrics? Graham Melbourne Oz