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| RiD No.: | 291 |
| Birth | Q3 1841 | Ipswich, Suffolk |
Susannah was baptised on the 29th September 1844 at St Helens church, Ipswich with her brother Walter. She would have been about 3 at the time. |
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| Death | Q3 1846 (age 4-5) | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| The death of a Susannah Abbott is registered in Ipswich in September quarter 1846. I cannot be completely sure this is the correct Susannah as the registration does not use the Cook name, but as I can find no other record of this Susannah, and her parents subsiquently names another daughter Susannah, I think this death is a safe assumption until proved otherwise. |
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Lots of Susannahs?
Thomas and Sarah appear to have had two daughters, both of whom they named Susannah. It was not an unusual at the time, when child mortality was high, to re-use names of deceased children, perhaps as a way of rememberance, but in this case neither daughter survived childhood.
It is interesating to note that Sarah had a sister named Susanna(h), and perhaps that is where the name originated? Also, Thomas and Sarah's eldest son, Thomas, named his first born daughter, Susannah, in 1853. She appears also not to have survived and he named a subsiquent daughter Susannah Kate in 1871.