Great x3 Uncle Samuel Manning

My Great x3 Uncle Samuel (1877 - 1877) was a younger brother of my Great Great Grandmother Grandmother Mary Ann 'Polly' Boobier (nee Manning) (1869 - 1916).

Samuel was born around early June 1877 in Exeter, Devon to William Manning (about 47), a general labourer, and Mary Ann Manning (nee Ireland) (about 36), a laundress.

Samuel was baptised on 8th August 1877 in St Leonard, Exeter. 

Samuel was the sixth 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)

Eleven years before Samuel was born, his older sister Emma had passed away, aged eleven months old, in 1866.

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

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

Samuel's younger 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.