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I love going on a search
even if I just get that tiny bit of extra info

just a tiny piece of meat on the bones :-D :-D

AS FEW YEARS AGO I SPENT A HOUR OR SO KNEELING IN A
MUDDY PUDDLE SCRUBBING MOSS OFF A GRAVE,
SOAKING WET COVERED IN MUD WASHED ALL THE MUD
OFF THERE THE WORDS I LOOKED FOR,,,NOT,,,
IT WAS WORN AWAY AND WHAT LITTLE LEFT ,
,,WAS IN LATIN,,,,I JUST COPE WITH ENGLISH.

I have been known to brush them with a soft brush

or even holds head in shame
chalked them

but I sure will try the shaving foam thank you x :-D :-D

I was given a useful tip many years ago by a seasoned gravestone reader.

When you come across a headstone that is badly worn, and the inscription difficult to read.

Have a can of shaving foam with you, and a squeegy type window cleaner (similar to a wiper blade)

Spray the headstone with the foam, and wipe off excess with the rubber blade.

The inscription will now stand out clearly, and can be more easily read. When finished, you can either rinse off with water, if it's available, but in any case any residue will wash off in the next shower of rain.

I have used this method a few times, and it does work.

Does no harm or damage to the headstone.

Tec :-)

Sleep in means she had to stay with her employer
so they can keep an eye on her safety Linda

poor girl the mind is a strange thing
she must of been very unhappy and desperate :-( :-(

I now have a match on GR
just received a PM with a off shoot a second marriage


so ALLS GOOD :-D :-D

I do my tree, my sister still living in our birth town decided to do the grave hunting . All our relatives of our living memory and many back to the late 1800s are in the town's main cemetery. As children we used to go to the cemetery with mum and find all our known relatives' graves and do some gardening. In summer we raided our garden and the 3 of us carried flowers and put a few on each grave.

Sister went a couple of years ago and was shocked. She had got a map from the council and had found the references to all the people she remembered. Couldn't find 1. All the headstones, including the ornate Victorian ones, and all the edging all gone. All that is left is a huge lawn. Rows are marked but not individual graves and everything is now level and she couldn't determine where each grave was as there was no mounds or dips any more. :-(

It is now a garden of remembrance with benches and nothing allowed on the lawn. The only part open for use now is the far side where our parents ashes are. Mum's ashes went into the same hole as dad's, that is still being allowed. No new ones are being started though. There are plaques there and urns but for how long? This part is a separate area where the old crematorium is, which is now obsolete (a new one is several miles away). The little chapel is left and the hedging hides the cemetery from view so they appear to be 2 different units.

We have no idea where bodies go to be buried as for years our relatives have been cremated. :-S

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Thank you for your help...I was thinking along them lines but was`nt sure!

"Sleeps in" normally meant lodged at her place of work.

Some successful finds from the sound of it! I've found a few for one line, but not a direct Ancestor. My lot couldn't afford headstones :-0

JoyBoroAngel.
Well Done on your find, bet you are estatic!

Well I have been doing some research on my Dads line who are from the Middlesbrough Area and have hit on lucky this last week and found three Burial plots all with four generations of family in them and all buried in the same Cemetery of North Ormesby.Middlesbrough..

I will be making an appointment with the Bereavement centre for someone able to take me to the burial plots concerned with flowers to be laid as well!

To top it off. I found two newspaper headings,Once again in Middlesbrough.. one of my Great Grandfather 1914 had been assaulted by the Rent Collector, this went to Court and they fined the rent Collector 7 shillings with court costs too.

The other was a female member had been put on probation for two years for attempting to commit Suicide, she had drank Creosode, had been re employed by her mistress on condition she `sleeps in`....

Oh Yes I have `Parker` of Fylingdales too!

Can someone tell me what ``sleeps in`` mean?

This site is very good for the North East Joy


http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/SearchResults.php

:-D :-D

My Dad had told me that his Aunt and Uncle (brother and Sister not married couple) are buried together in a single grave, so I will be on the hunt soon, on me own though and only the Uncles name to to work with, should be good fun me thinks. :-D

not yet Guinevere

I now also got all their children from the censuses
so more work tonight adding them

I may have to go back to sneaton as I find more marriages
we went inside the church which was very oldie world

I did have a sneaky look under the carpets
to see if there was any grave stones on the floor
but no luck there

Well done. Have you looked at the old maps site to see if the house is marked on there?

WHOO HOO
about 36 peoples grave just slotted right in with what I had in my tree
and one I was given two names for her husband in the records
but found hers and her husband graves
so she was Mrs John Duck after all

and we visited the three farms one was no longer in the Watsons hands
but Watsons name was on the deeds
the people who owned it now where lovely
they directed us to the Parkers farm
and told us to knock and ask for Margaret
we did but nobody was home it was very run down
and the other farm the Parkers had was in an even worse state

I really don't know how the people would of farmed such barren land
we never found the Manor house where Ethel and harry Watson lived
but we did finally find the Castle miles away at Ruswarp miles away :-D :-D

So all in all a great days hunting :-D :-D

I found a lovely map of a particular graveyard and knew the numbers of the plots of some of my ancestors. Unfortunately the council had issued a compulsory purchase order on that corner and put a road through it.

I wouldn't have minded quite so much had not my ancestor donated the money to buy the field for a "burying ground" a couple of centuries earlier.

Too true Joy. I have been lucky with some as the cemetery records have been goo and I have been able to pinpoint their resting place. I always take flowers with me and place them on top to take photo of the location so at least they are not completely forgotten. It was spooky last year for me as I found one of my Dad's relations from London buried only a few yards from my Mother in Law here in Bedfordshire. I was walking back from the water tap and there he was.

I Believe the Parker are still there farming the land
Decendents of three brothers John Thomas and Joseph

so fingers crossed LaGooner :-D :-D

to be honest the link I am looking for
may of had wooden tributes so may be long gone
as that was the norm in the 1700s

But if you don't look you don't find ;-) ;-)

I do hope you get lucky and find some today Joy. Unfortunately some could not afford headstones so can be lost forever, so sad <3

we used to go in the winter to
people would laugh
when we where up to our knees in snow or soaked to the skin with rain
or knee deep in the nettles and brambles

but now its only a warmer dryer activity

Les hope today finds us some good info to add to my tree xx :-D :-D