my 11X Great Grandfather is buried here in Essex England
from a Google search
| Great Leighs, St Mary the Virgin Churchyard Also known as: St Mary the Virgin, Great Leighs |
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THEN: About a year after he recorded this fashionable throng on Second Avenue celebrating the visit of President Theodore Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet in the spring of 1908, Frank Nowell became the official photographer for Seattle’s six-month-long Alaska Yukon and Pacific Exhibition in 1909.
NOW: As a guide, Jean Sherrard’s ‘repeat’ includes, on the far right, a glimpse of the Moore Theatre at the southeast corner of Virginia Street and Second Avenue.
Perched near, and somehow above, the sidewalk on the east side of Second Avenue, Frank Nowell, the photographer of this flood of fashionable pedestrians, is standing about a half-block north of Stewart Street. The crowd seems to spill onto Second from what the Times called the “immense viewing stand” on its west side. The pack has gathered to celebrate President Teddy Roosevelt’s ‘Great White Fleet’ during its four-day visit to Seattle. The American…
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I had cause to look up St Mary Bothaw, an old church in London, only to discover that it had been destroyed by fire in the Great Fire in London, 1666. So no nice picture to offer you today. The marital venue of 2 ancestors in my family tree no longer exists. I suspect this is an intriguing avenue/sidetrack for further research.
Here is a picture from Wikipedia of the site of the former church.
