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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Fordingbridge
« on: Wednesday 06 November 13 10:49 GMT (UK) »
I have been doing my family tree for over 20 years now.
My Grandfathers family have been in Fordingbridge for over 400 years, and over the years have married into other families in the town, so looking at the parish records, on each page is about 4 or 5 of my relatives due to the fact I am probably related to most of the town one way or another.
Recently I took a trip there and was really excited to go to Fordingbridge church, thinking that every other gravestone would be a family member. Imagine my horror to find half a dozen gravestones in the church cementry! I spoke to the warden who said that in 1900 the churchyard was full up so they purchased a field on the outskirts of town to bury people in, fair enough, but they flattened the existing gravesyard! and to add insult to injury they put a few headstones around the church wall but the rest they made a path out of!
Has anyone else heard of this happening? I am still furious that a church could do this to the headstones!
Lorraine
My Grandfathers family have been in Fordingbridge for over 400 years, and over the years have married into other families in the town, so looking at the parish records, on each page is about 4 or 5 of my relatives due to the fact I am probably related to most of the town one way or another.
Recently I took a trip there and was really excited to go to Fordingbridge church, thinking that every other gravestone would be a family member. Imagine my horror to find half a dozen gravestones in the church cementry! I spoke to the warden who said that in 1900 the churchyard was full up so they purchased a field on the outskirts of town to bury people in, fair enough, but they flattened the existing gravesyard! and to add insult to injury they put a few headstones around the church wall but the rest they made a path out of!
Has anyone else heard of this happening? I am still furious that a church could do this to the headstones!
Lorraine