General Chat

When I go I take my hubby and son of 12 and they both help me to look for the surnames and they are not into geonology

We also take NOTEBOOK and CAMERA

THE PHOTO'S HAVE REALLY COME IN USEFULL

Yes, I tend to photgraph any with the family surname and have managed to trace a link on some afterwards.

My OH used to laugh when I first went, but then we found some of his rellies and he got more interested. Some stones had been placed flat around the edge of a graveyard and were very overgrown with soil and grass. Without thinking he said we would have to come back......with a spade!!! lol He realised how that would look and decided maybe a trowel instead!!

I must say it annoys me that they lay the stones flat for the frost and weather to wear them away more quickly.

I can honestly say no, not from family. My OH may get a glazed look when I talk of the past but he is quite happy for me to delve into grave yards.......he probably thinks it's to do with vampires anyway :-D Seriously OH isn't or at least wasn't interested in my hobby but has never seen it as strange and does encourage me.

The rest of my strange family are also doing their trees so no problem there.

I do get strange looks from outsiders when I'm happy to find a memorial in the 1800's but hey I get strange looks anyway so why worry :-D

my old man make me laugh his happy to take me to any cemetery i want to go to that is not in how eara so he mostley take me to the long drive ones i carnt get to.
his then happy to let me get on with it the only thing is he dont get out the car he drive behind me and then panecks when i didaper behind the head stones LOL

With all this talk about visiting Cemetries I wonder if anyone knows the cemetery in east London not far from the Mile End Station. My grandfather Albert Edgar Ford was burried there but I cannot find it. I was told by someone some years ago that it has been closed for many years. If this is so, what would happen to all the remains and the head stones?

My OH has no interest whatsoever in my interest in the past unless it is sport and world history.

Bridget in Spain
18.24 hrs.

Spanisheyes- could this be the place?

http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgsl/451-500/461_parks/cemetery_park/contact_cemetery_park.aspx

There is a contact link if you wanted to ask them

We had a facinating few hours in a cemetery in Port Arlingtonin Southern Ireland, looking for Grandparents headstones.
We never did find them sadly, they died in the 1930s and my Dad had no idea where they were. It was an interesting visit looking at the epic memorials which were in there.

Many had photos of the family loved ones on them, there were all sorts of ornaments, etc on them and beside them.
I have never seen such huge and expensive stones, most of which were for people who had died in the last 50 years or so. I have never seen this in England.

My Son was only 7 or 8 at the time and daughter 14 and even they did not moan or groan the whole time we were there :-)

Teresa

years ago i started my family history with a grave yard search which i found out my great gran parents ..my gramps brothers and familys.....
my partner takes me to local ones as i dont drive ..
its amazing place and so peace full. meet loads of other people doing the same as me if your local where people come from in search of family ..

Today, we went to our County Town and took the opportunity to stroll along the river bank. Spotting some old buildings, we went to investigate what turned out to be the Bishop's Palace and attached parish church.

OH's reaction?

"Oh gawd! A graveyard! She's in her element again :-0 "

:-D :-D :-D

In my younger fitter days I used to go black-berrying round the local cemetery and if I was feeling down, I would stop to read the stones of the brave boys killed in WW!.
Not one of them reached the age of 21

All the rich important people are buried next to the church and the boys are in a valley which often turns into a neglected meadow in summer.