Hi Guys
Im am interested in knowing more about Nantwich Cemetery?? I have recently come back from a trip to England where I visited St Marys Nantwich looking for graves. I found a lot of grave headstones that made a pathway around the church believeing they to be graves. I was informed that the graveyard out front of the church had been grassed over, I am unsure if the graves that were in that area were removed or remain underneath the grass area. I am aware that there is an area in a vault inside the church where the remains lie of a number of persons who were disturbed during the renovations of the floor in recent times. I am uncertain if the remains under that floor contain any remains from the outer graveyard now grassed over. When I visited I had only a short few hours, there was a food and drink festival on so there were hundreds of people there, and a lovely old chap in the Church gave me some insight into the history but it was short as you would expect, there were lots of people there asking him questions. Can anyone tell me....anything more about St Marys Nantwich? I am looking for the graves of Mary Jones d 1880 who died in Nantwich widow of Edward Jones who died in Nantwich and who I believed both to be buried there, but found no graves. I put that down to renovations and their graves being disturbed. However, even though they may have died in Nantwich perhaps they weren't buried at St Marys. Edward died much earlier than Mary, around 1827 and she in 1880. She lived in Nantwich Middlewich Cheshire. I know where they died but I want to know where their graves are. My husband and I walked over every plaque there was around and in St Marys but found no Mary or Edward. We thought at the time they may have been some of the ones who were incripted under the church floors, or perhaps they still lay in unmarked graves under grassed area at front of church. Can anyone over there help me find the information I am looking for. We did find some family members...Turners (as Mary was a Turner Jones) buried at St Chads at Wybunbury which was so great to find. I just presumed because Mary and Edward died at Nantwich which is what their records show..that they were buried there at St Marys as that is where they married, but one should never presume...I wish I'd had more time to stay over there to investigate for myself. Can anyone help me???
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Cheers Pamela from Aus