AnnB
Editor in Chief who is Hot off the Press!
I think that is pretty conclusive
Alfred Robinson...but not
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AnnB
Editor in Chief who is Hot off the Press!
Probably when Alfred was adopted - his father (if still alive) wasn’t the sort of chap to want to look after his children on his own, if, of course he was anywhere to be found
What can I say, you lot are absolutely the best. I've just got his birth certificate and the date of birth is 6th September 1916.
Such a sad storey has been told, a sad start to life and then to be killed in WW11 the same year he got married.
Thank you all so very much
Such a sad storey has been told, a sad start to life and then to be killed in WW11 the same year he got married.
Thank you all so very much
Wellington Journal - 9th February 1918
ALVELEY.
AN inquest was held by Mr. Coroner Hasle- wood yesterday (Friday) evening, at the house of Mr. C. Scriven, Dye Lane, on the body of the infant female child of Arthur John Geo. Minton, waggoner, May House, Alveley, who said the child was born on the 21st December last. She had not been christened, nor had her birth been registered. On the night of the 29th January he noticed that the child was not well, but was able to take some milk. Her breathing was not good.-Alice Minton, mother of the child, said the deceased was small when born, and about three days before she died she noticed it was not well. On the 29th she noticed the child's breathing was bad. She did not send for a doctor that day, as she had not got the money. She had had nine children; all fiving except this one.-Dr. W. W. Craig (Bridgnorth) said he made a post-mortem examination of the body. He found that the child only weighed 41b., and it should have weighed 6lb. 8oz. at birth. The lungs and the liver were congested, quite sufficient to account for death. He thought that the child had not had sufficient nourishment, but whether that was through the child not being able to take food or from neglect he could not say. The jury, after deliberating, found that the child died from congestion of the lungs, and the Coroner told the parents that the jury might have brought in a verdict of manslaughter. No doubt this child had been severely neglected, and he advised them to be very careful in the future.
