Kate Adelaide Moore

   Cause of her death was Probably SIDS [suffocation].

  General Notes:

New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966 Name: Kate Adeline Moore Event Type: Birth Event Date: 1875 Event Place: New Zealand Father's Name: Curtis Moore Mother's Name: Catherine Moore Registration Number: 1875/11043

Shortland Cemetery Records - 889 - Moore Kate Adelaide -11 wks - bur 3 Aug 1875 -p 289

Find a Grave Memorial 172454068
Kate Adelaide Moore born May 1875, New Zealand; died 1 Aug 1875 Thames, New Zealand
Daughter of Curtis & Margaret Moore.
Curtis was a sawyer by trade.
At the inquest the jury decided the baby had died of accidental suffocation, but seems more likely to be SIDS in our terms of today.
PAPERS PAST: TAITUA.
THAMES ADVERTISER, VOLUME VIII, ISSUE 2111, 3 AUGUST 1875
They were living in Grey Street, Thames at the time.
Aged 11 wks
Gravesite Details No Headstone

THAMES STAR 2 Aug 1875 - SUDDEN DEATH OF A CHILD - Coroner's Inquest.."...Kate Adelaide Moore aged 2 1/2 months old.... Curtis Moore..the father of the child gave evidence...Catherine Moore the mother of the child...a verdict of accidental death from the suffocation was returned,,,,"[it seems the mother had nursed the child and laid the baby on the bed and fell asleep..she awoke at 5 AM to find the child dead..no covering was on her nor was she entangled in any way...]