57% of children born in the Victorian era died by age 5 despite the wealth and prosperity of the country there were huge amounts of poverty and poor health. Here is a small sample of children’s graves from Scarborough’s Dean Road Cemetery.
‘Farewell sweet babe to all our hearts still dear, oft shall we bathe thy memory with a tear, short was thy life but long will be thy rest’.
‘My dear little angel forever, this memorial erected by his loving and ever sorrowful mother’.
Hannah Milson, 1879, age 8
Rachel Lamb, 1900, age 6
William Iley, 1854, age 13
Ralph Iley, 1845, age 18 months
Mary Iley, 1849, age 1
Charlotte Hansell, 1845, age 2
Elizabeth Hart, 1847, age 15
Anne Wilson, 1888, age 9
Henry Havelock, 1875, age 7
John Sailes, 1870, age 11
Florence Northrop, 1897, age 9
Doris Ruston, 1896, age 6 months
Lily Coates, 1886, 12 months
Harry Jewison, 1878, age 12 months
Ann Barber, 1878, age 12 months
Ellen Wray, 1851, age 8 months
John Brittain, 1869, age 2 months
James William, 1870, age 4
Mary Banks, 1877, age 2 days
Evelyn Smith, 1881, age 18 months
Francis George, 1888, age 1 year
James Harrison, 1869, age 9 years
Elizabeth Thompson, 1868, age 2 years
Harry Thompson, 1871, age 4 years
Francis Gibson, 1868, age 15
John Fielding, 1874, age 9
Hannah Stalker, 1863, age 7
Sarah Booth, 1863, age 2
Charles Booth, 1869, age 15
Wilson Pashby. 1878, age 3
Thomas Edmond, 1901, age 10
Mary Jane Coultas, 1865, age 1
Beaumont Clarke, 1885, age 3
Mary Bell, 1871, age 12
Herbert Toft, 1889, age 2
Thomas William, 1846, age 7
Charles Edward, 1861, age 2
Mary Theophenia, 1865, 6 months
Charles Hill, 1873, age 13
William Walters, 1874, age 12
John Colts, 1865, age 5
Emma George, 1879, age 10
Mary Hardcastle, 1874, age 6 months
Edwin Popple, 1867, age 4
Ellen Fletcher, 1889, age 3
Annie Fletcher, 1889, age 8
Katherine Esther, 1871, age 9 months
John Sedrian. 1870, age 2
Alice Grey, 1866, age 1
Elisabeth Potter, 1859, age 7 months
Eleanor Smith, 1870, age 7 months
Arthur Smith, 1873, age 1
Ellen Siggsworth, 1858, age 6 months
Charles Downes, 1858, age 2
Ann Morley, 1880, age 3
John Morley, 1881, age 18 months
James Dawson, 1858, age 6
Richard Smith, 1875, age 18 months
James Smith, 1884, age 18 months
Edward Furniss, 1884, age 5
Gladys Dodsworth, 1895, age 3 months
Clarence Harper, 1891, age 6
Myra Smith, 1884, age 3 months
Anne Newbiggin, 1857, age 6 weeks
George Newbiggin, 1874, age 9
Annie Doughty, 1871, age 6 weeks
Mary Vazey, 1848, age 4
Reginal Skelton, 1882, age 6
William Dobson, 1898, age 14 days
Annie Dobson, 1898, age 3 months
Ethel Dove, 1869, age 5
Godfrey Knight, 1869 age 5
Godfrey Knight (2), 1858, age 7
