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Many thanks for that, does anyone have or know where I can find military information on the above person, all that I know is he was in the Somerset light infantry.

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hello,   
the building known as somerset heritage centre , in taunton , near silk mills road
will be able to help you with some details, or at least enable you to search
i believe you have to contact them, email is fine, and register
then you can arrange to visit, and search some docs, including parish records
there is a library there, of history books, including details about the SML
regrads
cd

Mary Ann Codrington died aged 58 in Jan/Mar 1874 in Bridgwater.

Is she buried in St John the Baptist Church's graveyard?

If so, please advise date of burial, and if anyone else was buried in the same grave.

Her widower husband John Codrington died aged 81 in Jan/Mar 1894 in Bridgwater  He was not buried in Bristol Road (St Johns) Cemetery which opened in 1878 so maybe he joined Mary Ann wherever she was buried.

If so, is there a plot/grave number?

For some reason, Somerset Trust has not published the burial registers of St John the Baptist Church, Bridgwater in Ancestry.com.

It doesn't seem an unreasonable place to start looking at all, especially as you're right - a lot of the surname usage seems to concentrate/originate in that area of Somerset.  (Bear in mind, though, that any UK port might have an occasional ship going to a foreign port even if it was unusual, and that all British ports were closely connected by regular coastal traffic anyway, so it would be impossible to rule out all other locations for sure just on that basis.)

I also have two sets of Washer families from that area on my tree, and while one of my lines fades out before that, and the other is a sideline on another tree that I haven't been able to expand yet, my Washers also moved between the West Somerset coastal area, Bridgwater (another port) and Bristol. So it's possible I might be able to help give pointers with some of my own researches - although sadly I do not have a ready-made missing John to match your Boston runaway!

But if you want to send me a PM and maybe let me know a bit more, I'll see whether I can fish out anything useful for you.  Good luck with your searching anyway!  And while it's not the rarest name, it also isn't super common - so maybe even if we can never prove it, we might still be long lost cousins from a very long way back, who knows?   

(Bear with me if I'm slow to respond at any point - I'm not always that well at the moment, but I will always still get back to you eventually.)

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If you do a google search on  'Wembdon Road Cemetery'. You will find that there has been a project which has detailed all readable inscriptions on gravestones and has photos of virtually every grave. There is also a mapping facility. Not every grave is photographed as I know of a cousins grave which is not featured, yet I know is there. It is great if you live along way away as you can see the headstones without visiting.
The Cemetery started in 1851 but closed back in the 1970-1980 period. Cant remember which year exactly as I was still a kid then.

hi, there used to be 2 chapels there, a Victorian hexegon shaped one which disappeared many  years ago,  and a 2nd chapel which fell into ruin, and no longer there

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If you do a google search on  'Wembdon Road Cemetery'. You will find that there has been a project which has detailed all readable inscriptions on gravestones and has photos of virtually every grave. There is also a mapping facility. Not every grave is photographed as I know of a cousins grave which is not featured, yet I know is there. It is great if you live along way away as you can see the headstones without visiting.
The Cemetery started in 1851 but closed back in the 1970-1980 period. Cant remember which year exactly as I was still a kid then.
hi, there used to be 2 chapels there, a Victorian hexegon shaped one which disappeared many  years ago,  and a 2nd chapel which fell into ruin, and no longer there