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The Lighter Side / Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« on: Monday 10 August 15 18:04 BST (UK)  »
A cousin of my mothers was being looked after by her grandparents, sitting on a 3 legged stool on the pavement. A horse drawn dray mounted the pavement and killed her. My mother and her sisters on hearing the news, after school rushed home thinking it was their young sister ,who had the same first name. The poor grannie was distraught, airing the little girls clothes on the fireguard. This happened about 1914, I remember the stool in a relatives house when I was a child. I think I would have chopped it up!

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The Common Room / Re: Cemetery map, finding unmarked grave?
« on: Monday 10 August 15 17:47 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, yes I think it is a grid reference, I will have to investigate . Cheers

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The Lighter Side / Re: Unusual First Names
« on: Monday 10 August 15 16:36 BST (UK)  »
Neptune, male, I am glad to say it died out  ::)

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The Common Room / Cemetery map, finding unmarked grave?
« on: Monday 10 August 15 16:23 BST (UK)  »
Just found out that my 3x grandfather, Neptune Smith, was buried Jul 14Th 1885, Coleford Cemetery, Forest of Dean. South Division, Adults GR H1.unconsecrated. Would love to visit grave ,have a feeling it is unmarked as he was 99 and poor. Any ideas how I can find it please?  :)

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