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Offline rwindsor2905

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Gravestone Inscription Required
« on: Saturday 05 October 13 13:30 BST (UK) »
I know it is not a paper document, but can anyone work out the inscription on the gravestone, please. 

It is posted in another forum
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=663569.new#new

Thanks for all assistance

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Chapman from Haddenham to North Marston, Buckinghamshire; Bradwin in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire; Cox in  Haddenham, Buckinghamshire and may be more Haddenham families as I make my journey back in time :)

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Re: Gravestone Inscription Required
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 17 October 13 05:49 BST (UK) »
From another headstone, and from the words I can decipher from your photograph I think the verse is:
Vain world adieu, I've seen enough of thee,
And careless am what thou can say of me,
What faults you've seen in me, take care to shun,
And look at Home, enough there's to be done.
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Re: Gravestone Inscription Required
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 17 October 13 07:35 BST (UK) »
I have had success with badly weather headstone by turning the image to black and white and then enlarging.  Or there is always the large sheet of paper and a black pencil.
Carol  Good-luck :)
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Re: Gravestone Inscription Required
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 17 October 13 12:19 BST (UK) »
This web page might be of interest. It contains the complete poem.

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/adieu-vain-world-ive-seen-enough-thee
Hannam in London, Nottinghamshire and Sheffield
Collins in Staffordshire
Brackenbury, Gurnell and Willson in Lincolnshire and now Nottinghamshire
Marples in Derbyshire and Yorkshire
Heginbotham in Derbyshire