Grave Photo Sought in Epsom Cemetery

[hurley42]

Hi

Just wondering if anyone could take a photo of a grave in Epsom ? As I live in Sydney Australia I am not quite 'around the corner' to the cemetery !

The grave in question is listed on a Grave Photo Project website but the link to the actual high res image does not work. Frustrating.

Details are:

John Nixon d 23 November 1927

Grave No F228A (buried with his wife Emma who died in 1937)

Epsom Ashley Rd Municipal Cemetery

I had more details on the grave kindly supplied by the manager but unfortunately my computer crashed and I lost the relevant email plus contact info.

Very much appreciated if anyone can assist.

Cheers

Robert

[Valda]

Hi

You can request a free image of the gravestone from the website.

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?available=yes&fullname=John%20Nixon&grave=50970&personid=103400


Regards

Valda

[hurley42]

Hi Valda

Yes thats the site I tried to use but the image is not forthcoming !
There is a technical problem with it (The high res image).

Hence my request for a photo in this post !

Cheers

Robert

[Valda]

Hi Robert

Sorry I still don't understand. Do you mean when you sent off your email request for the photograph it wasn't sent you? There are no high resolution photographs actually on the website. You have to request them.

You mean the form and sending off the email link is not working?

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/requestimage.php

If that is not working have you tried the 'contact us' to tell them there is a technical fault?

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/contact.php


Regards

Valda

[hurley42]

Hi Valda

Yes I made the e-request and the response did not 'work'.
 
Elsewhere on that site I think they explain that some photo links do not work .. hence my photo request on this site !

I sent a subsequent email explaining that no grave photo/or contact info for other parties interested in the grave was forthcoming. An auto response was sent initially sent to to me but it was 'empty/blank' ie no information.

No response to my 2nd email yet and that was some weeks back as I recall.

So for this particular grave it does not work.

Cheers

Robert

[Langley Vale Sue]

Hi Robert

I live only about a mile away from Epsom cemetery and should be able to take a photo for you this week.  I've noted the details and will check the cemetery map for the grave location.

Sue

[Langley Vale Sue]

According to the list of Epsom Cemetery burials there is no John Nixon listed, but there is an Emma of 20 Heathcote Road, Epsom who was buried on 8 April 1937 age 83 in grave F228A.
www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk/EpsomCemeteryBurialsN.shtml

I will check the exact gravestone inscription when I go.

Sue

[hurley42]

Hi Sue

Yes the internet list of burials for Epsom does not mention John Nixon but you will find his grave there as his name is missing by error.

I had e-contact with the local history people and also the Council Cemetery Manager (unfortunately all of these emails were lost when my computer crashed recently) and they confirmed that his grave is indeed there but not mentioned on the list you refer to !! Its an oversight.

Many thanks for your kind offer. I am very keen to be able to read the inscription on the grave as it has taken me about 3 years to track this ancestor down ! All I had to begin with was a photo of John in an unidentified uniform that turned out to be from the Royal Artillery. Once that fact was established it took a while to crack the  National Archives at Kew but just 2 months back a researcher found about 90 pages of references to him in military records. From that point on I had several links to follow (marriage, Census and birth records) and that is what led me 'to' Epsom.

The details you have for his wife Emma (d 1937) should lead you directly to the family grave which contains both parents and one of the sons. The Nixon family resided at 20 Heathcote Rd Epsom from perhaps 1883/4 until well into the 20th Century as far as I can tell.

My contact email is:

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Should you ever need any images from cemeteries in Sydney Australia  - I am more than happy to oblige ! I live in the eastern suburbs and we have 2 large 19th Century cemeteries facing the Pacific ocean - quite picturesque.

Cheers and thank you once again.

Robert



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[ShaunJ]

Robert

I've been looking at mentions of John Nixon in UK newspapers. You may have some of this already, but before he moved to Epsom he was Labour Master at the Farnham Union workhouse (he is listed there in the 1881 census as the Porter). He was appointed to a position at the Epsom Union in June 1881 or thereabouts. His replacement at Farnham was elected by the Board of Guardians on 16th June 1881 (Aldershot Military Gazette 18 June 1881).

In 1877 he had applied for the position of Relieving Officer for Southampton No1 District but was not successful. He was described as porter, Farnham Poorhouse.

SJ