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Weird & Wonderful Graves

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 7 Mar 2015 00:22

Hope its locked shut, when I get to it......

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 6 Mar 2015 17:49

The Other Side?

Researching:

Dermot

Dermot Report 6 Mar 2015 12:33

How often do we consider what awaits us beyond death's door?

Nolls from Harrogate

Nolls from Harrogate Report 6 Mar 2015 12:25

A bit of a laugh - my brother bought a raffel ticket from his church in the US, now he has never won anything in his life - but win it he did ...A Burial Plot !! How thrilling !! the owners had bought it years before but then emigrated so gave it to the Church to sell! One very useful prize me thinks!

Researching:
Gilmour/McSherry/Boyle/Mason/Robertson

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 6 Mar 2015 12:19

When in London, try to visit Highgate Cemetery, they organise tours.

There is one grave where there is a catacomb, not open to visitors, where a distraught man used to go and sit with his deceased wife.

The grave of Tom Sayers, a victorian boxer, has a statue of his dog keeping guard over it. Apparently when Sayers died, the dog used to sit on the grave, until it eventually pined away.

Researching:

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 6 Mar 2015 00:27

more..........

http://www.viralnova.com/creepiest-and-strangest-graves/

some are weird, really weird :-(

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 5 Mar 2015 11:17

The Protestant and Catholic graves are great!

Soon after my father in law died in 2008, a stone appeared on the neighbouring plot.
No one recalls the ground being disturbed but the stone has a man's name on it.

It reads: Born ( a date added)
Died
There is no death date?

I wonder if he bought the plot and the stone in advance?

The cemetery was only opened in 1989 and my inlaws purchased their lair in 1990....well in advance !

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

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 5 Mar 2015 10:05

Weird and wonderful indeed.

I enjoyed that. :-)

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 5 Mar 2015 08:55

THE PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC ONE IS IN A WAY EXCELLENT,THEY ARE STILL HOLDING HANDS

Researching:
FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

DIZZI

DIZZI Report 5 Mar 2015 08:51

GREAT GRAVES

Researching:
FINCH+LOCK+WEAVER+HALES+BROOKINGS+MANSFIELD+HOOK+TITCHENER and STEVEN & ISRAEL WEAVER c1735

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 5 Mar 2015 08:18

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/11197878/Weird-and-wonderful-graves.html

:-D

IMHO the best one........a Protestant man & his Catholic wife.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/11197878/Weird-and-wonderful-graves.html?frame=3090188

Better view of the wall here: http://i.imgur.com/Lbb5z6B.jpg