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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Marriage in Northbourne - WANSTALL
« on: Tuesday 02 March 10 20:06 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I have been researching the WANSTALL name for many years and found your notes on the gravestones at Worth the other day. I was unable to relate the death of Sarah in 1851 to any of my records. The nearest I had found was in 1854. So I took myself of to Worth today to have a look for myself.
I have been studying the Gravestones at Ash (St. Nicholas) and have found that you have to look carefully at them in close up.
You will find that the date does read 1854, but only the vertical is cut to any depth on the 4 and from a distance it looks like a 1.
The "Betty" Stone is in fact for Mary the Wife of Petley WANSTALL. PETLEY is badly worn and does look like BETTY.
Behind the two William WANSTALL Stones are two further small Foot Stones that are both marked W W.
W. W. 1816 And W. W. unable to read.
S. W. 1831
Regards Roger of Ash
I have been researching the WANSTALL name for many years and found your notes on the gravestones at Worth the other day. I was unable to relate the death of Sarah in 1851 to any of my records. The nearest I had found was in 1854. So I took myself of to Worth today to have a look for myself.
I have been studying the Gravestones at Ash (St. Nicholas) and have found that you have to look carefully at them in close up.
You will find that the date does read 1854, but only the vertical is cut to any depth on the 4 and from a distance it looks like a 1.
The "Betty" Stone is in fact for Mary the Wife of Petley WANSTALL. PETLEY is badly worn and does look like BETTY.
Behind the two William WANSTALL Stones are two further small Foot Stones that are both marked W W.
W. W. 1816 And W. W. unable to read.
S. W. 1831
Regards Roger of Ash