There are lots of Arthur Marshalls in this graveyard, and this is one of them – this Arthur was a fairly unremarkable man, but not everyone in here has a grand story. Some stories are fairly straightforward ones. We were glad to be able to verify this inscription before the stone finishes delaminating and becomes …
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This was listed as “unmarked”, but look – initials carved into the sidestones. JC, MC, KC and AC. We know that Michael Coleman (d. 1908). Kate (Catherine) Coleman (d. 1943), and John Coleman (d.1951) are buried there…but who is AC? Michael and Kate had a daughter named Annie, who married William Mayers and died in …
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This grave was previously unmarked as the cross had gone missing and the plinth unceremoniously tumbled into another plot before decades of ivy grew over it. Rather than tell the story of little Orah, who was 17 months old when she died in February 1888, we will tell the story of why she’s the only …
Read more “33.19 – Orah Marion Stacey (previously unmarked)”