Thousands of parents never got to say goodbye to their lost children. We hear from four of them
Michelle and Richard Jones at St Ann’s church in Rainhill, Merseyside, where they recently discovered their son Christopher is buried.Michelle and Richard Jones at St Ann’s church in Rainhill, Merseyside, where they recently discovered their son Christopher is buried.As late as the 1990s, healthcare professionals assumed that if a parent saw their stillborn baby or established any kind of connection with them this would only deepen their grief.
The couple tried to find out where he was buried up until the mid-90s but were never successful. After seeing a television report two years ago, they were ultimately put in touch with Paula Jackson at Brief Lives Remembered. Margaret’s baby, whom she would name Marc Wyn, was found in Toxteth cemetery. “It was just a grass patch,” she says. “I wanted to mark it. I put a wooden plaque in the place.”
After the birth, she was not permitted to see the baby despite “pleading” with them: “‘Oh you’ll forget about this,’ I was told.”
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