Royton Cemetery mass grave: Babies and children among 300 bodies found
Royton Cemetery mass grave: Babies and children among 300 bodies found
The unmarked burial site in Oldham contains 145 stillborn babies, 128 babies and children and 29 adults.
"A mass grave containing more than 300 bodies, including babies and children, has been uncovered.
An unmarked burial site at Royton Cemetery in Oldham contained 145 stillborn children, 128 babies and young children and 29 adults, local councillors said..."
Before the 1980s, stillborn babies were taken away from families who were not given any details of what happened to their babies or where they were buried.
Medical staff would tell bereaved parents their children would be buried alongside "a nice person" who was being buried that same day – often without giving them the opportunity to say goodbye.
Instead, the babies were interred in mass graves.
That's rough.
There was also no central registry of stillbirths which makes tracking them down difficult. My grandfather always claimed to have been one of twins but his brother, Anthony, was stillborn. We don't even know if he existed (although my grandfather's younger brothers both had sons called Anthony, which wasn't a family name before that), let alone where he ended up.
How on Earth did the woman "uncover" a mass grave? No details at all in the article. Typical BBC crap.