Stanley
William Stanley Baldock jr
1891–1894
The eldest child, born within a year of his parents’ marriage — died not yet three years old, and remembered on the family headstone only by his pet name, “Stanley.”
- Born
- 1891 · registered Newtown
- Died
- 1894 · Newtown
- Lived
- 3 years
William Stanley Baldock jr was the first of William Stanley Baldock and Jessie Frances Brooks’s nine children, born at Newtown in 1891.1 He died there in 1894, not yet three years old. He is remembered, alongside his younger sister Winifred Grace, on his parents’ own headstone at Rookwood — not by his full name, but by the pet name the family knew him by, “Stanley.”
The Record
Sources & References
- 1
Birth and death registrations, 1891 and 1894
NSW BDM birth registration 26135/1891, Newtown district, father William S. Baldock, mother Jessie. Death registration 9430/1894, Newtown district — died aged about three.