[DarkNights]

I just finished reading, and this stuck out, page 549

Explanations for the Cases
To summarize this phenomenon, children's reports of past-life memories
occur worldwide, and 2500 cases have now been studied. Some of the children
come from areas with a cultural belief in reincarnation, but some do not. In many
cases the child's statements have been verified to be accurate for one particular
deceased individual. A number of the children have also had birthmarks or birth
defects that match wounds on the body of the deceased individual. In addition,
many children show behavioral features that appear linked to their past-life
statements, such as emotional longing for the previous family and phobias
related to the mode of death of the previous personality. Some have also
appeared to recognize people or places from the previous life, and some of these
recognitions have occurred under controlled conditions.
Normal and paranormal explanations for the phenomenon warrant consideration. The normal explanation that appears most likely for many of the cases is that
faulty memories by the children's families cause them to believe that their children
knew more about a previous life than they actually did. Researchers have not
investigated most of the cases until after the previous personality has been
identified. Thus, the possibility exists that after children make a few general
statements about having had a previous life, their parents find another family that
has lost a family member, and once the two families exchange information, they
come to think that the children demonstrated specific knowledge about the
previous life beforehand that they in fact did not (Brody, 1979).

Is that Brody 1979?

Notable person would be Bridey Murphy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridey_Murphy

Tighe's tale began in 1806, when Bridey was eight years old and living in a house in Cork. She was the daughter of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife Kathleen. At the age of 17 (c. 1815), she married barrister Sean Brian McCarthy, who she claimed taught at Queen's University Belfast, to which she moved. Tighe told of a fall that caused Bridey's death c. 1864, and of watching her own funeral, describing her tombstone and the state of being in life after death. It was, she recalled, a feeling of neither pain nor happiness.

Somehow, she was reborn in America 59 years later (in 1923), although Tighe/Bridey was not clear how this event happened. Tighe herself was born as Virginia Mae Reese in the Midwest in 1923, had never been to Ireland, and did not speak with even the slightest hint of an Irish accent. Murphy, however, spoke with a heavy brogue and used Irish expressions (some of which were not actually used in the 19th century).