Her father, Captain Carpenter, Ford Cottage, became a member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, April 16, 1833. Her tomb gives the statue of a naked grieving child holding a funeral garland, now half hidden amongst a holm oak's branches, on a base sculpted with bees, poppy pods and ouraboi, symbolizing royalty, death and eternity. We learn from the archives that the baby of an Italian father, given his anglicized name, was born, baptised and buried fifteen days before his English mother. She has most likely died from puerperal fever brought on by a delivery with unwashed hands. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, the Hungarian who had made this discovery in Vienna in 1847 but whose work was rejected by his medical colleagues, had himself died of septicaemia in an insane asylum two years previously.
Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Caroline Alasia, née Carpenter, l'Angleterre/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23777/1 N° 389 Death 20/12 Burial 22/12 Age 41 Rev. Pendleton; child born, baptized, buried 15 days before 05/12/67/ Funeral expense for baptized male child, 180 francs/ Obituary, Times, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: 13. Alasia nata Carpentier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 20 Dicembre/ 1867/ Anni 35/ 999/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Caroline Alasia, née Carpenter, l'Angleterre/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23777/1 N° 389 Death 20/12 Burial 22/12 Age 41 Rev. Pendleton; child born, baptized, buried 15 days before 05/12/67/ Funeral expense for baptized male child, 180 francs/ Obituary, Times, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: 13. Alasia nata Carpentier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 20 Dicembre/ 1867/ Anni 35/ 999/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Her father, Captain Carpenter, Ford Cottage, became a member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, April 16, 1833. Her tomb gives the statue of a naked grieving child holding a funeral garland, now half hidden amongst a holm oak's branches, on a base sculpted with bees, poppy pods and ouraboi, symbolizing royalty, death and eternity. We learn from the archives that the baby of an Italian father, given his anglicized name, was born, baptised and buried fifteen days before his English mother. She has most likely died from puerperal fever brought on by a delivery with unwashed hands. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, the Hungarian who had made this discovery in Vienna in 1847 but whose work was rejected by his medical colleagues, had himself died of septicaemia in an insane asylum two years previously.
Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Caroline Alasia, née Carpenter, l'Angleterre/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23777/1 N° 389 Death 20/12 Burial 22/12 Age 41 Rev. Pendleton; child born, baptized, buried 15 days before 05/12/67/ Funeral expense for baptized male child, 180 francs/ Obituary, Times, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: 13. Alasia nata Carpentier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 20 Dicembre/ 1867/ Anni 35/ 999/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Caroline Alasia, née Carpenter, l'Angleterre/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23777/1 N° 389 Death 20/12 Burial 22/12 Age 41 Rev. Pendleton; child born, baptized, buried 15 days before 05/12/67/ Funeral expense for baptized male child, 180 francs/ Obituary, Times, Morning Post/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: 13. Alasia nata Carpentier/ Carolina/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 20 Dicembre/ 1867/ Anni 35/ 999/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
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SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ CAROLINE SUSAN ALASIA/ WIFE OF MAJOR ALASIA/ OF THE ITALIAN ARMY/ DAUGHTER OF CAPTAIN CARPENTER/ OF FORD NORTHUMBERLAND/ DIED 20 DEC 1867/ ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF/ HER INFANT SON/ GEORGE EDWARD// I CRIED UNTO THE LORD AND HE HEARD ME
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