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Family History Documents and Artefacts => Graveyards and Gravestones => Topic started by: zooze on Thursday 19 August 10 18:28 BST (UK)
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I recently vissted the ancestral graveyard in Withyham Sussex and found about 12 gravestones of the AVIS family on a little area close to the main church door and the path and then again onthe other side of the path right next to the door. Does this mean the family were important inthe church? There wer a lot of very well off families that used this church and my family were not inthe the same circles!!!
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Hi zooze,
One of my ancestors was a parish clerk back around 1800, certainly not a man of means, but when his wife died she was buried right next to the porch on the south side of the church (this is at Dymchurch in Kent).
Perhaps something similar is the case with your family?
Cheers
Prue