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Alan,

I've no doubt you'll have come across these already but, just in case you haven't ...

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-492119-headstone-to-william-newmarch-sculcoates

Regards,

David

Hi Alan,

Well, I realise it's been a fair long time since you wrote this post - but, on the off-chance that you might pick this up I'll go ahead and write anyway.

I was born and raised in Hull and, on occasion, have visited the cemetery where your William Newmarch now rests...  I have always been fascinated by his grave stone, both by it's design and decoration and also by the record of William's campaigns.  I was always impressed by this man who had fought in so many campaigns and survived.

I would imagine that, if someone had met the young William Newmarch in the heat of battle and told him, not only would he survive this day but live to be 83 - well, he might have thought they were barmy!

But he did survive - and he did live to be 83.

And now his gravestone stands just as proud and decorated as I'd expect he once stood...  I am 38 years old now Alan, and I'm not certain if I might be half the man that William was!

I have found his gravestone so intriguing that, only today, I took a friend of mine (another 38 year-old) on a detour passed the cemetery to see William's head stone.  That's how I came by your post - I typed William's name into Google and just wondered if - by chance - anyone might be searching for an ancestor...  Gawd only knows I've spent plenty of hours searching my own family history and know how rewarding it can be to find a link and a connection.

I snapped a couple of photies on my camera phone, but the picture quality on this thing is really quite poor.

Do you have photographs of William's Head stone already Alan?  If not then I'd be happy take another detour when I'm in that area, snap some better quality pictures, and send them to you.

Regards,

David

Hello again kaebee,

Well, I've taken a look through my family tree and I cannot find any of the names you have mentioned.

However, I am in touch with other Pexton's with roots from around the Hull area - I could copy and paste your query in an email to them to see if any of those names you've mentioned appear in their family trees?

In the meantime the Pexton family tree keeps on growing - so I've no doubt I'll come across these names and that of your Grandfather at some time or other!

Let me know if you'd like me to forward your query, and keep in touch.

Good to hear from you.

bobfish

I'm looking for other descendents of these family's who were - at one time - family's in Hull, East Yorkshire.

I'm keen to make contact with any descendents of any of these family's because I have photographs of some of them and would like to tie them into my tree.

Michael McLocklan b.1834 in Belfast, Ireland, married Mary Pexton b1829 in Hull, on the 7th October, 1856 in Hull, East Yorkshire.

Their son, George Pexton McLocklan b. 1858, married Mary McDermott Gawthorpe b. 1859 on the 22nd December, 1878 in Hull, East Yorkshire.

They had five children, I am descended from one (Mary Pexton McLocklan) but another of their sons, George H McLocklan b.1890, married to Agnes W Stinson b.1892, in 1912 in Hull, East Yorkshire.

Another child, Annie McLocklan b.1881, was married in 1902 to a Gerard Sharpe in Hull, East Yorkshire.

If anyone has any connection with these families or knows of anyone who may have connection, could you get in touch - I may have some photographs of you ancestors and would like to share them with you.

Kind regards,

David