There is one further fact you can add to your tree, if you wish. It relates directly to Agnes Ann. I told you she died while pregnant and lost the baby, which was what I had been told by my Aunt and read in the Wharton family bible "died of scarlet fever, her and the baby". But I finally got round to checking her burial record at Orton and was amazed to find the next entry 10 days later read "James Kendal Wharton" aged 2 weeks, son of James Wharton. The same appears in the local paper giving the baby£s date of death as 18th December 1882., i.e. 10 days after his mother. What I don£t know is his exact date of birth - was "2 weeks" an approximate age and (Agnes Ann KENDAL] AAK died in childbirth or was the baby born before she died, but had the fever too and died 4 days later?

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I have received the birth certificate for AAK's baby James Kendal Wharton. He was born on 5th December, 3 days before his mother died