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    Still on the look out for my George Knight's Death looking through the Burial records this made me smile
    George Knight 1880.JPG
    Last edited by Guest; 20-02-16, 15:18.

  • #2
    LOL, I love all these little quirky asides!
    Thanks for posting that, Val.

    Jay
    Janet in Yorkshire



    Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree

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    • #3
      they make me smile too, and is it normal to have the age on the Coffin ?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Val wish Id never started View Post
        they make me smile too, and is it normal to have the age on the Coffin ?
        Yes often coffin plates have the date of birth or age on them.

        Cheers
        Guy
        Guy passed away October 2022

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        • #5
          Thanks Guy just thought they would just have the persons name if anything.

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          • #6
            I've made several transciptions learly 20th century of newspaper reports of funerals and they often include what was written of the coffin plate. Images come to mind of the cub reporter hanging behind the mourners then swooping in to peer into the grave before the gravediggers filled it in...

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            • #7
              The first funeral I ever went to was my mums and I could not watch the burial dont even know what the coffin looked like.
              Do they often write more than the age of the person on them

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Val wish Id never started View Post
                Thanks Guy just thought they would just have the persons name if anything.
                If you google Coffin plates there is a page of images of inscribed plates with various additional details from weight to name of his wife

                Cheers
                Guy
                Guy passed away October 2022

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                • #9
                  Nanna's had the birth - death bit which I assumed was always normal.
                  Lennon. Phillips. Thomas. Peacock. Tubridy. Burton.

                  I am the girl from that town & I'm darn proud of it.

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                  • #10
                    weight too Guy ? I will have a google thanks, Sarah I have never ever read whats on a Coffin, get too upset even if its not somebody I know.

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                    • #11
                      First and last I ever saw and I got dragged to do it so I really don't blame you Val. I prefer to just have televised versions.
                      Lennon. Phillips. Thomas. Peacock. Tubridy. Burton.

                      I am the girl from that town & I'm darn proud of it.

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                      • #12
                        I vaguely remember a dead person being laid out in a room where I lived as a child Sarah think it might have been a grandparent people were kissing it I would not even go near it, pleased its not common these days.

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                        • #13
                          I've just seen a baptism record from 1818 in Dorset where the occupation of a single woman baptising a child is given as "strumpet". Well, really! ;)

                          STG
                          Always looking for Goodwins in Berkshire.

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                          • #14
                            STG

                            Oh, I can beat that! One of my relations was " great and incontinent whore" lololol.

                            I've also seen a baptism with the marginal note "Her NINTH illegitimate child". The Clerk has gone through the paper, so hard did he underline the word NINTH!

                            OC

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                            • #15
                              Oh yes, that beats my strumpet good and proper.

                              STG
                              Always looking for Goodwins in Berkshire.

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                              • #16
                                not heard that term for a long time Strumpet must google to find out where it came from

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