Stillbirths & names registered .....

[joette]

Whilst searching through the OPR for St Quivock in Ayr the OPR for Newton was on the same film(St Quiv.was a very small Parish & the records are less than extensive.)I found the most marvelouss entries.
There was a Death register which included the cause of Death-things like chin cough-I think a brilliant description of what I took to be Whooping Cough,Smallpox in epidemics& the annual ones of Measles.
However the most touching was the stillbirths which were registered with the babies being named.I cried as I thought of those parents giving names to their wee ones who would never hear them called.

[CatrionaL]

Joette

I can imagine that once you start looking through OPR films, you lose count of the time and even where you are, so immersed you become in what you are reading.

Best wishes

Catriona