Norwood cemetery complete

[JustinL]

That's what I have too, grave no. and square plot no.

[helvissa]

I *might* go to Norwood in December so if anyone's looking for a grave in the vicinity of Grave 5010 – Square 6 and Grave 9588 – Square 3, I'll take a photo if there's a headstone. I'm definitely going to Kensal Green though (hmm... how many cemeteries can I fit into a weekend?!).

I like rummaging about in old graveyards anyway - I had a wonderful time at the Pere La Chaise!

[nightnurse51]

I too like "rummaging through graveyards," especially a graveyard that could well have a rellie.
I am helping a guy called Charles  Sales who is trying toget people to take photos of a graves all round the country an he puts them on his website and then people can ask for the picture. all he wants is a small donation. There are listings first so you make sure  its your rellie, name age at death and aprox birth.
I have taken all the graves before 1910 in my village graveyard. there is also a small seperate cemetary but its a modern one with recent burials. so I havent taaken any in there so not to offend rellies.
So when I have gone anywhere out comes my digi and I snap away.
If everyone took just a few it would be great.the website is called www.gravestonephotos.com
As I did a whole churchyard I put all the photos on a disc and listed them with any info I knew from the census and he put them on to his site in his own way.
Like him I think its important for these records to be photograhed and documented for generation to come as they are slowly being reused for the present generations so these will be lost forever.
Also with acid rain eating away at the  stone lots of them will become illegible anyway.
Carol

[helvissa]

What a fantastic project! I'll have a read....

[screwlooose]

Heres a link for the cemetery, with an overhead view and the squares, if u have the info already.
www.westnorwoodcemetery.com/maps_and_trails/

[helvissa]

I've seen the map but the overhead is rather nifty. And what a fab photo!

[just peachy]

Hi Enumerated, I'm not sure if you offer is still available but if it is could you look at Sarah Dutton buried in common grave no:7850 square 2, I got an email also but the guy said that there are very
few remaining headstones in this section of the cemetery which is now
laid to grass and is mown periodically :-(
There probably isnt anything there anyway so only if u r in that area, ta!!

[Valda]

Hi

If the burial was in a common grave that means the family couldn't afford to purchase a grave plot and Sarah would have been buried with several unrelated bodies whose families also could not afford grave plots. Only on privately purchased grave plots would there be the possibility of a family gravestone, though affording a plot didn't necessarily mean the family could afford a marker that was substantial enough to have lasted over the years.


Regards

Valda

[just peachy]

thanks Valda I did wonder what a common grave was, very strange that she was buried there she came from a wealthy family and married into a wealthy family.