Search Request: Burial of Infant Who Drowned in Great Sheffield Flood of 1864
FULFILLED Edited to fulfilled as research to locate burial still ongoing.
I'm requesting assistance to search the following records
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/film?dgs=101466410&cat=olib:2827924&i=0
Specifically I'm searching for information pertaining to a 1-3 day old child
Forename: Unknown
Surname: Dawson
Parents: Joseph & Mary Dawson
Date of Death: 11-12 March 1864
Body Found: 16 March 1864
Interred: about 16 March 1864
For context the following article relates;
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The first and youngest victim was a 2-day-old baby boy, the child of a tailor named Joseph Dawson. They lived in Lower Bradfield. Dawson's house was located at the end of a row of houses at the bottom of the valley, about 20 yards from the river's bed. He had personally seen the crack but thought there was no immediate danger. So, he could not believe it would fail. He and his wife went to bed at their usual hour only to be awoken when he heard men shouting "It's coming! It's coming!" As his wife was still convalescing from child birth, Dawson searched for help to safe his family, but as no one was available, he carried his wife as she held their newborn tight in her arms.
>Dawson reported:
>"[A]bout twenty yards from the door … the flood met us, and knocked us both down … We were both covered by water, and I was obliged to let my wife go … [We returned to the house hoping to make it upstairs when] the flood caught us again, and washed the blankets and my child away, and left my wife naked in my arms … I was obliged to leave the child to its fate, or I could not have saved my wife."[3]
>The tiny body was found a few days later having been carelessly deposited by the flood in someone's coal cellar.
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>[3] Harrison, Samuel, A Complete History of the Great Flood at Sheffield on March 11 & 12, 1864, 1864, p. 20.
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