Author Topic: Who are this Callear family shown on Hednesford, cannock, Staffs headstone?  (Read 460 times)

Offline SiCallear

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Evening!

Whilst researching the/my Callear family tree, I have come across this grave [see attachment] (on find a grave site). I've tried various sites, searching for the individuals shown but beyond this gravestone, I have not been able to find any records that match their deaths, marriage of parents, birth of son, etc.

Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219680568/john-callear

Can someone point me in the right direction (please!)  ???
Callear/Gallear and a growing list of (mis)spellings

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Re: Who are this Callear family shown on Hednesford, cannock, Staffs headstone?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 30 December 22 22:42 GMT (UK) »
It could possibly be GALLEAR rather than CALLEAR.   On FreeBMD there is a death of a John GALLEAR in 1937 aged 59 and a death of a Walter Charles Gallear on 1979, born 10 Nov 1903.  Both are in the Stafford registration district

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Staffordshire: Lawton Probyn Horrobin
Durham: Bamlett Hardman Winship Robinson
Suffolk: Leggett

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Re: Who are this Callear family shown on Hednesford, cannock, Staffs headstone?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 30 December 22 22:50 GMT (UK) »
You've got it Chris  ;D  ( I was going wide and wild on a chase after a Jabez Callear and wife Mary Jane Bayley)

Death
Alice Gertrude Gallear, born 20 Jul 1902
Death registered Mar 2001 Cannock Chase, Staffs

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Re: Who are this Callear family shown on Hednesford, cannock, Staffs headstone?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 31 December 22 03:34 GMT (UK) »
The first letter of the surname is the same as the 'G' in the word 'LOVING' on the first line. Luckily the whole thing is written in capital letters.
It must have been how the stonemason thought it was in this script.
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs