Sometimes researching a family really makes you stop and think - a couple (relatives of mine in #Blackburn) had 8 children and only 1 survived infancy. In March 1918, they (age 81 & 82), their one surviving son (47) and his wife (43) all died of #pneumonia within just 25 days.
#SpanishFlu ?
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Remembering my G-Aunt, Florence Corless, who died 11/6/1963. One of the generation of #WW1 widows. Married for 3 months before her husband left for France and didn't return. She never re-married, and her son, who his father never saw, was my God-Father.
#OnthisDay
All ready for the @agragenealogy.bsky.social Study Day at Ely.
Remembering another of my G-Aunts - Mary Corless. Born #OnThisDay in 1875, in #Blackburn.
Never married and lived with my grandparents - died 1958.
A report of the 1899 death of a relative (with a clear & tragic implication), printed only a day after it happened ... interesting though that the report of the inquest held a week later was worded much more sympathetically.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Blackburn
I think I may have broken our #Kenwood food processor and it was a treasured #engagement present ...😢
Although we did get married 41 years ago !....😀
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