JBL was not lonely bones in his grave at 8225. We know that there were at least two other burials the next day on the 9 August 1877 in the common ground grave site.
There were more burials in the next decade, 10 years later exactly. One young 18 year old, Alice Moore was also buried at 8225 in common ground. Her parents Eliza and Charles are also buried there later. I have had lovely help in the last couple of days. I have spoken today with the helpful lady at
http://enablelc.org/bereavement/about/ to confirm what I was finding in the burial registers. She confirmed that there were indeed 6 people buried there. Four of them were in there, up to Alice Moore in 1887, with the grave classified as common ground (therefore there had been no payment for their burial). The lady checked records and believes that Alice's parents then paid for their burials. You would think they wanted to buried very much with their daughter Alice. Eliza died first in 1893 and then husband Charles died in 1908. They paid for a stone too....and it remain today on the ground but very legible. It is this fact that help confirm the exact location of JBL's burial place.
Would have been hard to as precise without having found the surviving stone for the Moore family so thank you to them
I am still amazed at the proximity of the graves. Being there and looking at the small space I was looking out between the graves I had identified, I could not easily imagine that there were so many graves laid out there.
So there you go, we have JBL's exact burial spot in the end...and he is not lonely at all!
I will add some other bits below....
