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AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 29 Oct 2014 13:18

Seen on FB. I liked it and thought some on here will too.

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone
The name and date are chiselled out
On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born

Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh in blood in bone
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.

Dear ancestor the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

'Emma'

'Emma' Report 29 Oct 2014 13:23

Ann I do like that :-)

Thank you for sharing <3

Maryanna

Maryanna Report 29 Oct 2014 13:44

Says it all Ann.

I like that, thank you.

M. :-)

Researching:
Devon, Somerset, Scotland, India, Essex, Surrey, London, Suffolk, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Dorset. McCausland, McCallum, Pallett, Brown Walpole, Gidley, Cook, Cole, Pickles, Harrison, Whitley,Ridgley, Holden, Guppy, Hankin and all the Kings Horses and all the Kings Men.

Susan10146857

Susan10146857 Report 29 Oct 2014 15:02

Like :-)

Mersey

Mersey Report 29 Oct 2014 15:04

Thanks for sharing Ann...I likes it :-) :-)

Researching:
#Be Kind

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 29 Oct 2014 15:29

Thanks Ann <3

Researching:

lilybids

lilybids Report 29 Oct 2014 15:41

Like :-)

PollyinBrum

PollyinBrum Report 29 Oct 2014 16:03

Thank you for sharing Ann <3 <3

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 29 Oct 2014 17:29

Thankies Ann,
We can all identify with this <3 <3 <3

Researching:
Brannan/ McGrath/ Kerr/ Jordan/ Finnigan NI and Free State. Devlin/ Lamont / Lamond/ Fyfe/ Pollock/ Johnston/Struthers/ Smith. Scotland. Avi: Hand Fasting or Tying The Knot. Daughters wedding 2016

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 29 Oct 2014 20:38

Like <3

On a visit to Scotland, my Mother wanted to go to the cemetery, to her parents' grave. Ofcourse I had to go with her. She told me my other grandad was in the same cemetery (I never knew that!). We found out where papa was and searched for his plot.... only to find he had no headstone.

Papa died in 1956, and my grandmother remarried in 1963 (age 68). Her 2nd husband is buried with his first wife, and gran is somewhere in the cemetery, but we couldn't find her plot.

Upsetting.

<3

Sally

Sally Report 29 Oct 2014 20:39

very good I saw it and shared it

sally w <3

Researching:
stephen taafe*muriel denley1917 he died 3 weeks later

JemimaFawr

JemimaFawr Report 30 Oct 2014 00:47

That was a very moving poem Ann :-) :-)

I think it sums up wonderfully how all of us who are passionate about our Family History feel :-) :-)

Jem <3

Dame*Shelly*(

Dame*Shelly*("\(*o*)/") Report 30 Oct 2014 11:15

i like it as well :-) :-)

Researching:
Re-searching Barber and Marrow Wickhambrook Suffolk