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Offline Ruari HM

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Re: Barnwell Parish Registers
« Reply #27 on: Monday 09 August 10 19:07 BST (UK) »
My 14 time great grandfather JOHN DUST lived at Barnwell and made a will in 1521.
He and his son John DUST, d 1557 are said to be buried at Barnwell.

There seem to be two parish churches.

Do any headstones survive from that early ?

It would be good to know.

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Re: Barnwell Parish Registers
« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 10 August 10 17:37 BST (UK) »
Extremely unlikely that there is any surviving memorial after this length of time, unless they were aristocrats or landed gentry and either buried in the church itself, or have a surviving memorial plaque within the church. Burials in the churchyard by this time will have been cut and recut several times. I believe that on average a buried body a little over one hundred years before decomposition is complete.
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