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Thomas Wilson is on the 1861 census taken aboard the Royal Navy ship "Ardent", at Rio Plata, Buenos Aires, where he was assistant engineer, age 28, married, born in West Linton, Peeblesshire.

That makes his year of birth approximately 1833.

I can't find anything else about him, who his parents and family were, who his wife and children were, where and when he died.

I am curious generally about how UK graveyards work.  Do they always have paperwork showing who is buried in them and exactly where, and if so where do you find this?  I am also curious who pays for the maintenance of old gravestones?  Presumably in private cemeteries it is the new burials who pay for the maintenance of the old stones?  And a lot of old graveyards are beautiful places that councils maintain because they are of historic importance?  I wonder how threatened the old gravestones are that have no living family to care about them, are they ever just taken down and new burials put in their places, due to the need for space?

I wonder what the logistics are of an old gravestone, of somebody who died between say 1850 and 1920, meaning anything to anybody, such that if you photograph them and put them on the Find a Grave website anybody would find that useful?  How many hits do Find a Grave memorials tend to get anyway?  Who are these likely to be useful to?  People researching their family history mostly I suppose, but also historians in general?

Some of these old gravestones have so much genealogical detail on them, as well as being beautiful, that I wonder what happens to them.  I am curious about those people who lived in these places long ago.  Most of these people left little trace, they were not famous.  In one cemetery I read on some nuns' epitaph a request to pray for the dead; I am not especially religious, but find it deeply important to remember these people who lived and died and seem forgotten, and various different religions seem to have similar attitudes.

Also, I would be grateful for any tips on how best to photograph gravestones.  It can be a question of do you just get a close up of the information so it can be read, or do you try to get background into the photograph?  I think the most beautiful gravestone I photographed was maybe because it had a stone angel with a background of a bit of blue and white sky, other shapes of headstones, trees and flowers, and you could also read the inscriptions.  If I was wanting a photograph for my family tree, that is what I would want.

I noticed something odd about some graves in St Peters Churchyard, Preston Park Brighton.

I just found this photograph taken in the 1860's of the grave of Benjamin and Amelia Travers.
http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume18/source/jg_18_153.html

I had already put a photograph of the grave of Amelia Travers on the Find a Grave website.
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GSmcid=48905387&GRid=156970194&
 She is the daughter of the gentleman Benjamin Travers.  The photograph  I took was a small stone laid into the ground, with another name, Harriet Madge, on it.  It looks nothing like the grand gravestone in the 1860's photograph.

The Regency Society website does say there was a fire at the St Peters Churchyard in the early twentieth century, so maybe some of the original graves were destroyed, and the one I photographed was only done then, from what was salvaged?  Does anybody know?  Maybe that is why there are so many insignificant looking little gravestones laid into the ground, overgrown with grass and moss, with minimal information on them?

My ancestor gives her name as "Thomasina Wilson a Vocalist" on her daughter's birth certificate in early 1877.  Her daughter was born on 3rd January, and the certificate is dated 12th February.  She gives her residence as 3 Calthorpe Street, Russell Square, and the place of her daughter's birth as 3 Blantyre Street, Chelsea.  Both addresses are in central London, close to the Victorian theatre land.

Her real name was Rebecca Hartley Wool, born 22nd April 1854, in Lewisham, the daughter of a tailor.

How would I find out if she is mentioned anywhere as a music hall performer?  I assume that a Vocalist in that area of London in 1877 would most likely be performing in music halls.

I ordered a death certificate of my ancestor from the GRO, and after spending nearly £10 and waiting three weeks, all I got back was the exact information I found online, which had been copied on to a certificate form.

My ancestor died at sea, of "Internal disease believed to be ruptured spleen", age 43.  There was absolutely no information on the death certificate that I didn't already know, I was hoping to learn something, maybe if there was a post mortem, or where he was buried, or where the ship was when he died, who the next of kin was, who the informant was, who diagnosed his death, whether his body was brought back to England.

Is it usual for death certificates to be so lacking in useful information?