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Text Box: Arthur remembers when his brother Edward Bernard Jones started “keeping company” with Dorothy, their mother Maria was anxious about this as they were blood relations.

Text Box: Joan Moffat remembers her cousin Dorothy sang ,in a lovely contralto voice, at grand family parties at the family house on Crescent Grove? It was just round the corner from Joan’s house. It made the ladies present all cry, and, quite young, she wondered

Text Box: Did Eleanor Louise die before the birth of Florence, and did Ernest and John die between Katie and Dorothy? Having lived in his last house with 7 adults JRK was now surrounded by girls who he thought of as his ‘Dearly beloved daughters’. In 1891 JRK brought his sister Louisa a ‘monthly nurse’ into the house at 101 Borough Road to look after his wife and the 4 girls. Sadly Ethel died. The next two daughters survived but sadly Emily Margaret (Smith) Kaighin died soon after giving birth to Helen Victoria, could this have been from birth complications. They were buried together in Flaybrick cemetery. Greg Kaighin, Honolulu, has researched the Kaighin family history in 2006 ,he says “...and I'm really no authority on infant burials, although when visiting the Isle of Man once I stopped at several grave yards and many of the head stones listed the infant children buried with their parents. In my database I have 141 known deaths of Kaighins prior to reaching the age of majority. That represents about 10% of the total number of births. In actuality this number is probably much higher, since there are many deaths that I just don't have the records of. Most of the burial records in the Isle of Man prior to about 1780 didn't include age, so I'm sure there were many more that I don't know about. And most of the child/infant deaths occurred prior to the middle of last century. Of the 141 infant/child deaths I have recorded, only 3 have occurred after 1930, so of the 138 I have recorded prior to 1930, the bulk of those occurred between 1780 and 1930. I imagine the rate of child/infant death would have been somewhat constant from earliest times up to 1780 (about 18-20%), so with that in mind, the expected number of infant/child deaths in my database (with approximately 1600 individuals at this time) should be between 220-250 infant/child deaths. That means that there are between about 90 and 110 infant/child deaths that I haven't found records of yet.

Text Box: Monthly Nurses. After Emily died, JR Kaighin’s sister Louisa Sykes is shown living with the family in census records as a “monthly nurse”. The census was a population survey taken every 10 years, starting in 1801. From 1841, census records provide information on individuals and may indicate or confirm that your ancestor was a nurse or midwife. The census will record their address which may be a hospital or a nurses' home. For many nineteenth century nurses the census is the only surviving record of their career. Hospital, workhouse and asylum entries list everyone present in the building on census night, although sometimes only initials are given for patients or inmates.The definition of the term 'nurse' can vary from census to census. On some censuses nurses were classed as domestic servants with responsibilities for childcare. Some of the terms used include: 1)Subordinate or Subsidiary Medical Services (abbreviated to S.M.S). 2) Monthly Nurse 3)Sick Nurse 4)Attendant or Ward Attendant 5) Nurses at Poor Law Hospitals were sometimes referred to as 'Poor Law Officials'. It should also be noted that a person recorded in the census as a 'nurse' did not necessarily have any formal training or qualifications.

Text Box: Olive says that Norman grew up and went to school in Birkenhead and his father was very supportive of him becoming a doctor. Norman worked at Moorfields, London but he and wife Enid visited Uncle Harold and Dorothy in Birkenhead often. Dorothy and Harold had no children. Did Dorothy wait till her fathers death in 1931 before considering marriage.? Brothers did marry sisters but Emily Kaighin and Herbert Jevons had both died before Dorothy married Harold.

Name	Event	Date	Location of Birth	Death / Burial	Location of Death / Burial
Emily Margaret	Birth	1883 05 01	Chester, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England	1937 05 31 - death (buried Flaybrick Cemetery)
Henry	Birth	1883 Dec quarter	Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, England	1883 12 quarter - death	Birkenhead, Wirral, England
Eleanor Louise	Birth	1884		1887 03 quarter - death	Birkenhead, Wirral, England
Florence	Birth	1886 Jun quarter	Chester, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England	After 1929	Isle of Man
Katie	Birth	1889 Mar quarter	Chester, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England	1911 05 05 death (buried on the 8th at Flaybrick Cemetery)
Ethel	Birth	1891 Mar 18	Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England	1891 12 18 - death	Birkenhead, Wirral, England
John Ernest	Birth	1893 Sep quarter	Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, England	1893 09 quarter - death	Birkenhead, Wirral, England
Harold	Birth	1895 Mar quarter	Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, England	1895 03 quarter - death	Birkenhead, Wirral, England
Dorothy	Birth	1896 Jun quarter	Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, England	1958 04 01 - death (buried Flaybrick Cemetery)
Helen Victoria	Birth	1897 Dec quarter	Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, England	1914 05 07

Emily and JRK started their family quickly after their marriage and had their first child Little Emily Margaret was born in 1883 she survived but there is a record of Henry B Kaighin dying. Did she start her marriage with a death and then continue to raise girls but continue to lose babies?