Thursday 9 February 2012

Felmingham

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Cremation and electricity

Just to say that I came across this story relating to County Durham and cremation which is a new twist on the sad development of cremation as a means of disposing of the human body. We are now to be part of generating power. Even if the burning of the body does not itself  fuel electricity the heat from the furnace will fuel power generation.

The "Daily Mail" is a British newspaper with a tradition of supporting 'traditionalist' Governments and carried the story

 

John Coe (Norwich) 1839

"A person of eccentric character, named John Coe, of Chapel Street, Crook’s Place, Norwich, died on this date.  “For 34 years he was a trunk maker in St. Lawrence’.  Deceased had made his own coffin five years ago, of old soap chests and tea chests, and had polished it up so that it looked like mahogany.  It was composed of 165 pieces, and on the lid was a black plate, bearing a quotation from the Burial Service.  The deceased had also made a coffin for his wife, who survives him, but this had to be disposed of to inter the remains of a poor woman whose friends could not find the money to purchase one.”


Title: Norfolk Annals  A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 1     Author: Charles Mackie

Lexham

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Thursday 2 February 2012

Bryant Lewis - Thetford Epitaph

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On Bryant Lewis, who was barbarously murdered upon the heath near Thetford, Sept. 13, 1698.
"Fifteen wide wounds this stone veils from thine eyes,
But reader, hark their voice doth pierce the skies.
Vengeance, cried Abel’s blood against cursed Cain,
But better things spake Christ when he was slain.
Both, both, cries Lewis ’gainst his barbarous foes,
Blood, Lord, for blood, but save his soul from woe"

Title: Gleanings in Graveyards a collection of Curious Epitaphs Author: Horatio Edward Norfolk



Please also see a blog with a photo of the headstone of Bryant in Saint George's Church, Colegate, Norwich.  also   appears in British-History