RootsChat.Com

Got a few "later-added" too.

Have a few headstones where the mother dies, then the children who died before her are added



Modified:  ...talking to myself here and trying to make sense of my own family gravestones .............please excuse me

HI,

Is anyone able to look up the newspapers in those areas, from 12th-30th June 1938?

(Won't go into detail here as there may be living relatives). 

Looking for death/inquest/funeral reports. please pm if you can help. (already have the death cert.

H

Heitch
Yes it was and yes they are!!
People used to think I was morbid bringing my children to graveyards
It helped them with:
Map reading- obviously
History - again a bit obvious
Geography - finding their location!!
Maths - if that grave is ref# A56 242 how far to A56 263 or calculating ages
English - where old english was used and explanations of changes in letters and usage
Civics - through general respect of the property
and this is long before you find the long lost dead relative that teaches the Realism of death being a part of life!!

or maybe this was me trying to justify my addiction!

Love it   Classic line from my daughter today.....(we missed a bus so had an hour to spare...graveyard across the way )
she started crying, saying that "I miss all these people"
Me, "don't be silly, you did'nt know any of them"
4 year old daughter, "but someone knows them and they miss them so I can be sad"

I had planned for an early night.......absolutely no chance of that now!

Thanks for the "heads up" and link

Hi Ena,
I went back to the graveyard, but no luck I'm afraid. There are a couple of "Robert Jones" graves which are legible, but none with a wife "Mary". Unfortunately the graves from the 1890's-early 1900's are in the worst state, (a lot of missing headstones and the laid down stones are covered with an inch or two of grass & moss)  

Helen