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Showing posts with label burial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burial. Show all posts
Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Carried to the other side

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"The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks" Frank Pierrepont Graves 1891   Project Gutenburg As soon as death had l...
Monday, 5 October 2015

Killed by lightning

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"The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks" Frank Pierrepont Graves 1891 "....  burial was denied, or at least en...
Thursday, 12 June 2014

Protestant Bethany Homes babies ignored - Irish Examiner

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Protestant Bethany Homes babies ignored  Irish Examiner "The Dublin Foundling Hospital which was established by Royal Charter had...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Joseph Pyke - Died 1958

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Irish Salem ( Read more ) "Brother Gibson was then rebutting claims by the Joseph Pyke Memorial Trust that Joseph Pyke died in 1...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Running out of burial plots.

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"RESIDENTS in Market Weighton, which is fast running out of burial plots, will face the choice of being cremated to stay local...
Thursday, 1 November 2012

'Deviant Burial'

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"It is believed to be a 'deviant burial', where people considered the 'dangerous dead', such as vampires, were in...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Salem 1692

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House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692, by William P. Upham (1902) Project Gutenburg "It is well known that the victims e...
Monday, 18 June 2012

Arthur Burrell Thorne Died 8th May 1918

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Robert Bradfield Died 5th February 1844

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Thursday, 14 June 2012

Cast aside at Sporle

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Sunday, 10 June 2012

Burial in a new churchyard

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Ecclesiastical Curiosities - (1898) Editor: William Andrews Project Gutemburg "Even at the present day there is a prejudice m...
Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Gerald Hyde Charles Stracey

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All Saints - Rackheath © Godric Godricson
Monday, 4 June 2012

William Martin Died 25th January 1767

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 All Saints - Newton by Castle Acre © Godric Godricson 
Friday, 1 June 2012

Graveyard at Princeton (1862)

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But it was of the dead, not the living, that I was about to speak. Nearly opposite the college Campus we find Witherspoon Street, named afte...
Friday, 25 May 2012

"Grave reserved by faculty"

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 © Godric Godricson  I've never seen this one before in a Church of England cemetery but here we have it. There's a queue to e...
Monday, 21 May 2012

Thomas Woodyer Died 24th June 1789

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Thursday, 17 May 2012

Doris Seadon

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  Doris Seadon   - Died March 18th 1907 © Godric Godricson

Gorgeous funerals

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The Parish Clerk (1907) Peter Hampson Ditchfield Courtesy : Proje ct Gutenburg The records of these gorgeous funerals, which are preser...
Thursday, 10 May 2012

Trinitarian thoughts

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The Cemetery is a place of reintegration and of community and has been so from a period before the introduction of Christianity in Britain ....
Thursday, 1 March 2012

Edwin Chadwick - Interviews (1843)

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Detail: Ashill Parish Church The following testimony of a lady, respecting the miasma which escaped from one burial-ground at Manchest...