Genealogy Chat

If someone makes a list add me for Stromness & Graemsay in Orkney - already have them listed and could take photo's if required

I've just done a Google search for 'monumental inscriptions' and there are 14,500 sites. Some of them list the names on the gravestone. If Kathleen Fennell is looking in - there is a Thomas Fennell and an Alice Fennell in Rathkeale Cemetery, Limerick. Any good for you? I could do look ups in Dilton Marsh (near Westbury, Wilts)churchyard - it's only 100 yards away. Sue

Nudge. I'd like a lookup soon please, so keep this one going. Be back later.

HI I COULD LOOK IN CEMETRIES IN HYDE CHESHIRE XX

I spent a day or two about three weeks ago looking round various church graveyards in Shropshire. The churches were often remote, and sometimes in the middle of the town - like Ludlow. I used to think that the expression ' carved in stone' meant that it was ineradicable. My graveyard excursions proved that this is not the case. So very many of the older than 50 years gravestones were totally eroded by the elements and moss - and there is no way they could be deciphered. The stone had in most cases totally crumbled, and what was intended to be a lasting monument to the dear departed was lost for ever. I did find one gravestone that I believe may have been one of my 'Reynolds' rellies- well it was in the right church- but I could only make out the name 'Reynolds' with great difficulty, and nothing whatsoever of the other info it might or might not have proclaimed. It was still 'deep breath' time when I DID find what may have been a relevant stone- but a fat lot of good it did me! Still, my patient spouse and I did help a very rural (and grateful) priest move a mountain of books from the back of his church to the vestry. So someone benefitted! So - take 'etched in stone' with a very large pinch of salt! Rosi

Sue Thank you for that. I will have to check on the information I have for the Fennell family. Kathleen

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