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Family History Documents and Artefacts => Graveyards and Gravestones => Topic started by: eagoodall on Wednesday 06 April 11 12:34 BST (UK)
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I collect photographs of gravestones and then transcribe all the details into a database so that they are searchable. Many gravestones fall into disrepair, as can be seen in the photograph below, or are vandalised and the information on them is lost forever, I hope to save some of that information for future generations so I am doing as much as I can in my spare time.
If you have any photos of gravestones that you would like to share can you post them, I currently have over 6,000 - mostly in Buckinghamshire, but also the Isle of Wight and wherever we go on holiday you will find me in the local graveyards snapping away. I hope this is of interest to you all.
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An excellent and worthwhile project. We have something similar going on the Lancashire board although we are just concentrating on the one cemetery and our transcriptions are going to be donated to Manchester Archives.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,481713.0.html
http://mgctp.moonfruit.com/
Luzzu :)
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I, too, have been photographing gravestones in Bucks & elsewhere, mainly concentrating on family and military graves. I recently sent a copy of my collection to Charles Sale at http://www.gravestonephotos.com/index.php so hopefully they will appear there soon; I'm sure he would be interested in yours as well.
Some of my military ones also appear on Buckinghamshire Remembers (http://www.buckinghamshireremembers.org.uk/) and the Wargraves Photographic Project (http://www.twgpp.org/).
Always happy to share pics, especially in Bucks, although possibly too many to post here!
It's always great to hear of other gravestone enthusiasts.
Dave
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I recently went into one graveyard, and upon returning a few months later half the graves had collapsed in on one another because they have a rabbit problem that hadn't been dealt with - there were bones everywhere and no-one was addressing the problem. Also over at Newport Pagnell someone has been going in and pushing over all the crosses - what is wrong with these people.
A more interesting one was a very old grave which was in lots of bits all over the graveyard which I pieced back together and photographed as a whole - jigsaws rule!
Eileen
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Hello, I don't suppose you have an picures of graves in Burnley? William H Morley in particular? :) Thanks, Jenny
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Sorry I haven't managed to get to Burnley :(
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If you give me some more details and I'll see if I can find any information for you.
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It's such a shame to see all this valuable data slowly decaying away.
Unfortunately, in many cases the 'vandal' responsible for fallen crosses is the motor mower ! :-\
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Hello, it's for William Hargreave morley, d.1927, grave A696 if that helps, in the 'old part' of the graveyard I believe, I also believe there are 2 others in the same grave. I'm hoping it won't have been moved/damaged as it wasn't that long ago. Any help would be very much appreciated :)
Jenny
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I suggest you to visit your cemeteries or you can search from online and can get details from church.
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Hmmm yes unfortunately I don't have a spare 100 quid for petrol/train to get up there ;p Have already contacted the church, they gave me the information above, but no photo. :)
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You could try seeing if there is a local Family History Group and ask if anyone nearby wouldn't mind popping in and taking a photo - I've done that for people before now.
Eileen
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I have lots of family graves in mitcham rd croydon and Queens rd croydon.. Taken some photos of family graves and ones with surnames who could be related to me. Still looking for family and one of my G-gran.
I was thinking of taking photos of old graves and i will do this. Some graves flat on ground are well buried,could be my family for all i know. I've taken photos of grave names who could be related to me
two william coopers and some turners,a potter,Roffey etc... found one of my potters and Lovett..
jew
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Ps this in Queens rd,so far.
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It can often be worthwhile talking to the warden or archivist, especially with churchyard graves.
I recently took a trip to the graveyard where my g.g. grandparents are interred, to see if I could prove any family links to others in the same area with the same surname. Grave photography proved fruitless because so many stones were unreadable - the grave yard was in SE London, next to a busy road, so I guess pollution had taken its toll. I was just about to leave in despair, when I found that the church doors were open, and people were milling around inside (a Sunday service had just finished). I asked if there was anyone available who had access to the burial records, and I was very lucky to find the church archivist actually in the church.
The archivist very kindly looked up the whereabouts of the burial place of my g.g. grandparents, and she also looked up who else was buried in the grave, and we found that their 4-year-old grand-daughter (who they never met) was also interred there. I left the archivist a list of about 6 other names of people that I was interested in, and some money to cover postage, in the hope of finding out more. I was pleasantly surprised to get a reply the same week, which listed the resting places of the other people, and found that they too had others in the same grave. By tracing these others, I am now much more sure that the other people with the same surname were indeed close relatives.
So, don't give up hope if you can't get to a graveyard to take pictures, or if you do get there and find no pictures to take, because quite often there are paper records surviving, and you have to track them down.
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Hi
I have alot of names of graves for mitcham croydon and Queens rd croydon. Have loads of names for Queens rd. For people related to me in the 1800s Buried there. But would the graves still be there? Found tons of flat stone graves,covered in grass,could i remove this grass so i can see a name? I have also 3 grave numbers and the area where they are,so i have to wait until i see the warden and hope the graves are there still.
I've been taking photos of graves with surnames on my tree,than i can look these people up. Some graves you have to get up close to see the details and i write this down. I've saved the photos,but how do i index the pics with details,i don't know how to do this. And if anyone who have family over Queens i can look and see if i can find a surname they want.
jew
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Sometimes the graves are still in place, I recently went to a graveyard and they had taken lots of old stones and piled them on top of one another along with any rubble they had and you couldn't read any of them - such a dreadful thing to do.
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I don't suppose you'd like to pass the info on to me too by any chance?
An excellent and worthwhile project. We have something similar going on the Lancashire board although we are just concentrating on the one cemetery and our transcriptions are going to be donated to Manchester Archives.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,481713.0.html
http://mgctp.moonfruit.com/
Luzzu :)
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Hello
I was interested to see that you had been to Newport pagnell Cemetery as my grandparents Stanley Lyman and Lillian are buried there. That’s good they don’t have a cross so hopefully it can’t get vandalised, I was wondering if you had seen any other gravestone’s with the surname Lyman as I do know there is another one buried there but every time I go over there the weather is rubbish so we don’t hang around too long.
Thomas