102-Year-Old Woman Finds Stillborn Daughter's Grave After 76 Years

After 76 years of waiting, a 102-year-old woman discovered her stillborn daughter’s final resting place.

In September 1946, the woman identified as Marjorie Rigby went into labour for three days and her baby was stillborn. Rigby recalls overhearing a conversation between the hospital consultant and the matron which revealed that her infant child was dead.

The hospital consultant only spoke with the matron and did not speak with Rigby. For more than 70 decades following the traumatic stillbirth, the elderly woman did not know what happened to her stillborn daughter.

After she was rushed to the hospital for the birth, Rigby was told by the staff that her deceased child would be taken to an "incinerator" for burial.

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Woman Finds Stillborn Baby's Grave

According to a BBC report, Rigby said she was left in a room and nobody came to talk to her before she was sent home two weeks later.

Rigby was in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during World War II and later had two more daughters, but she never forgot Laura, her stillborn daughter.

Rigby’s daughter Angela Rigby saw a program on BBC North West Tonight about a mother who found her stillborn child’s final resting place after six decades. She researched ways to help her mother find the stillborn child’s grave and discovered a charity named Brief Lives Remembered.

The charity organisation located Laura’s grave in Stockport Cemetery in Greater Manchester, England. Brief Lives Remembered also advised the family about how to acquire the birth certificate of the stillborn baby.

Angela Rigby revealed that the stillborn child was found 76 years later buried alongside five other babies and an adult in a coffin in an unmarked grave. She visited her sister’s resting place and took flowers to place on her grave as well.

Marjorie Rigby said that it was “a big relief” to know where her stillborn daughter was after 76 years. She added that it was a relief that know “she was actually put in a coffin with the other babies”.