Losing three children in one month

Charles Kingsbury, an agricultural labourer of Winterborne Whitechurch, Dorset, married Susan(na) House in 1835 at nearby Hilton. Their firstborn son, Francis, was born in 1836 and survived well into adulthood. Their three next-born children were Dinah (born 1838), Jane (born 1840) and John (born 1842), all of whom were to die of scarlet fever in …