Baby William DIXON born 1890
Poor little baby William DIXON.
He was born in 1890 but doesn't appear on the 1891 census. I did search for a death entry but the only one I could find at all was for a 2 year old William DIXON whose death was registered in the Holborn district in the 3Q 1890.
However, I'm sure this is 'my' William DIXON and I wondered whether the age of death on the index entry was wrong and this 2 years is really 2 months and so it should say zero? I submitted an error report to the GRO website on the 17th August to see if it could be checked and it has been checked and updated by them! I checked today!
I do think it is worth submitting error reports to help other researchers. So far, I've submitted 3 since the beginning of July this year and so far two have resulted in them updating various things on the indexes.
Anyhow, back to little William! So, I've found the death entry for him. He died aged only 2 months and his death registration details are as follows:
William DIXON Age at death:0 3Q 1890 Holborn Ref 01B 455.
I wonder what he died from? Although I could buy the certificate, there are so many I want to buy, it could be expensive to buy anything other than the essential ones! Of course, infant mortality was so much higher then. I can't be the only person glad to be alive now and not then, as to see the deaths of several children must have been heart-breaking.
He was born in 1890 but doesn't appear on the 1891 census. I did search for a death entry but the only one I could find at all was for a 2 year old William DIXON whose death was registered in the Holborn district in the 3Q 1890.
However, I'm sure this is 'my' William DIXON and I wondered whether the age of death on the index entry was wrong and this 2 years is really 2 months and so it should say zero? I submitted an error report to the GRO website on the 17th August to see if it could be checked and it has been checked and updated by them! I checked today!
I do think it is worth submitting error reports to help other researchers. So far, I've submitted 3 since the beginning of July this year and so far two have resulted in them updating various things on the indexes.
Anyhow, back to little William! So, I've found the death entry for him. He died aged only 2 months and his death registration details are as follows:
William DIXON Age at death:0 3Q 1890 Holborn Ref 01B 455.
I wonder what he died from? Although I could buy the certificate, there are so many I want to buy, it could be expensive to buy anything other than the essential ones! Of course, infant mortality was so much higher then. I can't be the only person glad to be alive now and not then, as to see the deaths of several children must have been heart-breaking.
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