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curiouswombat

A few more church yard pics, and odds and ends...

Sep 12, 2009 17:03

When I posted the pictures of Bride Old Church Yard earlier this week I commented that I had also taken some in the newer part of the graveyard. The original churchyard runs east from the sanctuary end of the church, the newer one is basically the width of a small field running along the north side of both church and old churchyard ( Read more... )

churchyards, reminiscing, d-d, parish churches, pics

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kazzy_cee September 12 2009, 17:43:37 UTC

Heee - thanks for sharing the photos! I suppose if you stay where your family were born and raised you do end up with lots of familiar names in the churchyard. My rellies are spread all over the place! :)

Loved the comments from your D-d sounds like a great break. Hope she felt OK and had got over her nasty virus.

curiouswombat September 12 2009, 18:06:06 UTC

I have a good few scattered around other places as well - but a good number of the ones in this churchyard are 'family' - and a good number of 'family' are buried here.

They did, indeed, have a good time in Amsterdam - and is feeling a lot better but had a second lot of antibiotics to take ready here for her when she got home, as her lab results showed the Trimethoprim might not be enough on its own - nasty bug!

gillo September 12 2009, 18:58:19 UTC

Herschell, Ella and Greeba? What astonishing names.

Kat is very clearly your daughter - both of you! Splendid girl - I love the museum story!

And I'm afraid "Called home" makes me think of
E.T. too!

curiouswombat September 12 2009, 19:41:35 UTC

Greeba is a bit less astonishing to me than to you - it is a place on the island, and I do know a couple of girls/women called that - but it is pretty rare - but Herschell Christian? Especially when you think it would be Herschell Christian the blacksmith's son.

The two who survived infancy were called William and Ruby.

She really is clearly ours, isn't she? Museum addiction is a family trait!

bogwitch September 12 2009, 21:02:09 UTC

Ah the new stones just don't have the same romance.

curiouswombat September 12 2009, 21:29:08 UTC

What? Not even the angel with cabbage leaves?

petzipellepingo September 12 2009, 21:09:16 UTC

Church and graveyard so much more interesting than ours.

curiouswombat September 12 2009, 21:32:40 UTC

It had never really occurred to me - they just 'are', if you see what I mean, until friends commented the first time I put a picture of an old church and churchyard on my journal.

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curiouswombat September 12 2009, 22:58:55 UTC

I had forgotten it was your family business - even though you were in my thoughts yesterday.

Uncle Wilfred did not really approve of telephones... but I am rather amused at the idea.

Actually Lily's original headstone said that she was called home, I think - and Uncle Wilfred received the call in the 1960s - perhaps they were monumental trend setters!

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