Hello listers, I am looking for some help in determining a possible burial place (or notice) for this young girl (my g-grandfather's younger sister). She was born on the 9th of July 1877 at Winlaton, Durham and, at the date of the 1881 Census, was living with her family at "Athol Street, Whickham, Durham". I don't have her death certificate as yet, as I have only just started on researching collateral siblings, although I would like to know her cause of death. She died on the 16th of August 1882, when my g-grandfather was 22 years old and his younger brother James Armstrong, was 12. Their parents were William and Elenor Armstrong, both aged 43. The GRO details are: Deaths Sep 1882 Armstrong Elizabeth Ann 5 <javascript:golink(%22/cgi/districts.pl?r=68810803&d=bmd_1254881774%22)> Gateshead 10a <javascript:gopage(1882,3,1,'10a','517',1)> 517 The birth and death details I have, however, are taken from our family bible, but sadly nothing else is known of her. No photographs or obituaries or funeral/memorial cards etc. from a family who saved such items. She was 5 years, 1 month and 8 days old at the date of her death and I am sure that this death must have devastated her mother, whose youngest child and only girl she was; as well as coming shortly after the death of an infant son, Robert Armstrong, born the 21st of February 1874, in Durham and who died on the 23rd of August 1874, a mere 6 months and 3 days old. The GRO details are probably the first one, but could as well be the others: Deaths Sep 1874 Armstrong Robert 0 <javascript:golink(%22/cgi/districts.pl?r=53887304&d=bmd_1254881774%22)> Gateshead 10a <javascript:gopage(1874,3,1,'10a','580',1)> 580 Armstrong Robert 0 Stockton <javascript:golink(%22/cgi/districts.pl?r=53887306&d=bmd_1254881774%22)> 10a 43 <javascript:gopage(1874,3,1,'10a','43',1)> Armstrong Robert 0 Easington <javascript:golink(%22/cgi/districts.pl?r=53887307&d=bmd_1254881774%22)> 10a 315 <javascript:gopage(1874,3,1,'10a','315',1)> Any information or suggestions would be gratefully received. Many thanks, Trudi Barr, British Columbia, Canada

Hi Trudi I can't help much with your question - although childhood deaths were common in those days - all sorts of diseases caused by poor living conditions. I would like to point out however that Athol Street is actually in Dunston - as you can see if you look at the full census print out. {I can send a scan of a map if you want it] I have a JEFFREY family who lived in the same area, and 5 of their seven children [except my great grandmother Isabella and her sister Annie] died in childhood. The parents also died in their 40s - the mother from Typhoid in 1889. Annie died in childbirth in her 20s - and my great grandmother, the only survivor of this sad family lived to be 83!!! Isabella and her husband Robert GRAHAM lived at 16 Athol Street Dunston in 1891. Athol Street was not far from Christ Church, Dunston [where I was married] which had gravestones - but I don't know if these were ever indexed or when burials took place there. My grandmother's parents Charles and Elizabeth Jeffrey were buried at Whickham in 1889 and 1893, so that is the first place I would suggest that you look for your little girl. Heather Trudi Barr wrote: