Great x3 Aunt Rose Manning

My Great x3 Aunt Rose (1875 - 1877) was a younger sister of my Great Great Grandmother Grandmother Mary Ann 'Polly' Boobier (nee Manning) (1869 - 1916).

Rose was born in Jul/Aug/Sep 1875 in Exeter, Devon to William Manning (about 45), a general labourer, and Mary Ann Manning (nee Ireland) (about 34), a laundress.

Rose was baptised on 12th September 1875 in St Leonard, Exeter. 

Rose was the fifth of nine children (five daughters and four sons):

• Emma  1865 - 1866 (11 months old)
• William  1868 - 1920 (51 years old)
• Mary Ann 'Polly' 1869 - 1919 (48 years old)
• Kate  1871 - 1916 (46 years old)
• Rose  1875 - 1877 (2 years old)
• Samuel  1877 - 1877 (11 weeks old)
• James  1878 - 1887 (8 years old)
• Unnamed Daughter  1880 - 1880 (0 years old)
• Frederick John  1882 - 1882 (6 weeks old)

Nine years before Rose was born, her older sister Emma had passed away, aged eleven months old, in 1866.

In August 1877, two-year-old Rose and her younger brother eleven-week-old Samuel both passed away. Did they both succumb to the same illness?

On 19th August 1877, Rose and Samuel were both buried in St Leonard, Exeter.

Rose's youngest three siblings also passed away as children: a unnamed baby sister in 1880, six-week-old Frederick passed away in 1882 and eight-year-old James passed away in 1887.