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do gravestones have more info on them than is recorded in the burial registers?
i ask as i've found an ancestor who died in 1795, i know what churchyard he was buried in (a long way from where i live unfortunately) but the register only gives the burial date. it could be the son or his father (both have the same name) who is buried there and if it's the father then a few confusing loose ends fill fall nicely into place!

In my case this applies to Richard Banks.
He was born in 1791 at Liskeard, Cornwall BUT his family were from Kent!
He isn't mentioned in his fathers will but then his father had remarried and only the children from that marriage were mentioned.
I have found his obituary in The Law Times which states his parents names, tieing him to the Banks family in Kent.

Would that be a definitive enough source?
I would assume, dangerous I know, that it would have been based on fact as it details his schooling and career as well.

Any thoughts?

mean anything to anyone - don't seem to be places, not that i can find anyway altough i may be missing something obvious!!

found in connection with the Davies family who married in to the Powells of Glyntarell and the Lloyd family of Towy and Caereau as the following:

Anne m. William Davies of Noyadd, Llandewyr.

William Davies of Trebarried, Brecon.

thanks for any help or pointers that anyone can give me

Bean

Hopefully he will be with the two women i think are his sisters Lydia Banks (b.circa 1793, Lostwithiel, Cornwall) and Harriet Banks (b.circa 1797, Liskeard, Cornwall).

John was born in 1786 in St Austell, Cornwall and hopefully his father will be listed as Richard Banks.

Thanks Bean

I'm looking for Richard Banks Davies, he married Ellen Margaret MacLeod in 1914 and died circa 1943/44.

Is there a branch of the BMD records that cover British nationals who marry and die overseas?


Cheers Bean