Rachael Hilda Sterling (1897 - 1905)

Born 10 Oct 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 May 1905 at age 7 in Muff, Lissan, Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Ireland

Biography

Rachael Sterling has Irish ancestors.

Rachael Hilda was born 10 Oct 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She was the daughter of William Stirling and Annie Hill.

She passed away 27 May 1905, age 7, at Muff, Lissan, County Londonderry. The cause of death was congestion of lungs and tubercular meningitis. Informed by William Sterling, father, Muff. ^[1] She is buried at Cookstown New Cemetery, plot OP/A/250. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Rachel Stirling, 1905, Magherafelt, 7 at Irish Civil Registration - Deaths
2. ↑ Space:Forthill_Cemetery,_Cookstown,_Tyrone - OP/A/250

• "Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HF69-8Y6Z : 15 February 2020), Hilda Sterling, 1897.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M376-YJ9 : accessed 26 October 2021), William Sterling, Philadelphia city Ward 11, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 193, sheet 11A, family 210, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,456.