The photo gave us a shock

between eight months and

11 years old, and according to the inscription on the gravestone, they’d all died of scarlet fever within a week of each other.

‘That’s so sad,’ my partner breathed.

It really was an utterly unimaginable family tragedy – especially as they’d have lived if they’d been born today. A course of antibiotics normally cures scarlet fever, but of course these weren’t discovered until the 20th century.

Our hearts went out to that family and what they must have gone through. The children’s parents – Thomas and Hannah

Wesby – must have shown unbelievable strength to survive such a tragedy, remarkably with their faith renewed and increased, as their own later gravestones stated. The importance of their faith to them as a belief, strength, and source of comfort was quite humbling.

Photo shock

When we got home, feeling slightly subdued by what fate can bestow (especially as we were soon to be grandparents for the ¿UVW WLPH ZH GRZQORDGHG WKH photos from the day.

‘Look at that!’ I said in shock. One of the photos, which

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looked inside the church through a glassless window, showed what DSSHDUHG WR EH WKH SDOH ¿JXUH RI a woman in a bonnet clutching a sorry bundle to her chest.

My partner and I shared a look as we were hit by an immediate extreme sadness.

Could it have been Hannah Wesby cradling her youngest in a happier time? We will never know. We can only hope the family has found peace in the next world and are now at rest.