Catherine Hunt

Today I received Catherine Hunt's death certificate, and although every death is sad and leaves a sense of loss, hers has touched me deeply.

She was only 40, which even for back then, was not "old". The cause of death was a that she collapsed from an ante-partum haemorrhage. Childbirth is then on a separate line below BUT as yet I have no birth certificate for a child born that day so am led to believe that the baby died with her.

I am attempting to find out if she was buried in the East London Cemetery favoured by our Canning Town/Plaistow ancestors, and if so, whether a baby was interred with her.

She had given birth to 11 children between 1883 through 1899, with what looks like twin girls in 1892 but I have more looking into to see if that is so, or if Tilly and Lilly may be the same person and simply a transcript has been mis-written at some point.