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Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 2,092 Send Message	Kathlyn	Report	3 Mar 2010 13:14
	A little spookie Christine, they must have known you would come a looking
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 492 Send Message	Christine	Report	3 Mar 2010 12:53
	If you do manage to find the burial place of an ancestor, look carefully to see if there is anything engraved low down on the stone - you might be surprised. I recently visited a neglected Methodist churchyard in Cornwall to visit the grave of my ggg grandparents. I had been there before, so I knew that there was an inscription, but it was covered by long grass. The inscription reads: "Ye whom the power of God delight to trace and mark with joy each monument of grace tread lightly o'er this grave, as ye explore the short and simple annals of the poor" Well worth uncovering I think. They must somehow have anticipated that someone would come looking for them! Has anyone else found any interesting memorials?
	Researching: Hill, Jewell - Cornwall. Langley-Shropshire,Cole, Neate -Wiltshire,Lott, Ewell- Kent.Punter, Gadd, Wapshott, White, Weston - Surrey. To say nothing of the other half's family!