Gravestone for Zechariah Walker, South Cemetery, Woodbury, Lichfield County, Connecticut
Zechariah Walker was my 8th Great Grandfather. He was born in Boston in 1637, died in 1699, in Woodbury Connecticut at age 63.
His parents were born in England and married in Boston in 1635. His mother came to America in 1630. She lived first in Salem. I haven’t been able to determine when his father immigrated to America.
I like the way this gravestone has weathered – beautiful.
William Howard, First Baron of Effingham, 1510-1575 my 12th Great Grandfather
St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Surrey, England
Grave marker for Lucy Jewett Miller, my grandfather’s first wife. She was only 27 when she died in 1869. She left 2 young children – Lucy Jewett Miller age 3 and Charles Dion Miller age 2
I have tried to trace what happened to these infants after their mother died so early in their lives. From U.S. Census records it would appear that they and their father (my grandfather) were living in the household of Lucy’s parents – at least at the time of the 1870 Census. This was in Newark. Lucy’s father’s occupation was given as revenue collector, presumably with sufficient income to support a large household. There were many siblings and also Lucy’s father’s parents.
The next Census in 1880 shows Charles Dana and the 2 children in a separate household from the Jewett family. According to the Census Charles”s sister, 2 years younger, was living with them, listed as a housekeeper. This was the usual designation for a wife – her occupation was “keeping house”. They were a household of 4 , Charles Dana, 2 children then 14 and 13 and their Aunt Elizabeth. Aunt Elizabeth was unmarried or a widow. Quite possibly a Civil War widow.
The only problem with the above is that upon looking further, Charles Dana did not have a sister named Elizabeth and 2 years younger. Research continues.
St Andrew Churchyard, Brockley Burial location of my 10th Great Grandfather
Sir Edmund Anderson, 1530-1605. my 13th Great Grandfather Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Baron Anderson of Boughton
grave marker for my 7th Great Grandmother Elizabeth Seaver in Eliot Burying Ground Roxbury Massachusetts
I wish some dedicated soul would restore this marker so that we could read the original inscription
Elizabeth Seaver died in December 1731. She was 88 years old.
Culpepper country Sussex England
Two Culpepper brothers married two sisters, Margaret and Elizabeth, granddaughters of Sir Richard Wakehurst, who thus brought the Wakehurst estate into the Culpepper family.
Medieval ancestors.
Culpepper effigy
Sir Walter Culpepper – known as “The Squire of Agincourt”
