Next
Rosalyn Hilborne

Rosalyn Hilborne club

Posted: 21 Jun 2018

Taken: 18 Jun 2018

19 favorites     29 comments    555 visits

See also...

Keywords

churches •
Wiltshire •
Downton •
lychgates. •

Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
All rights reserved
555 visits

Lychgate at Downton ~ St Laurence Church

Lychgate at Downton ~ St Laurence Church
Along with my daughter and brother I have been tracing our ancestry on my mother's side of the family, which took us unexpectedly to Downton, Wiltshire. We wanted to make sure we were following the correct line so went grave hunting! We were very lucky to find a corner of the churchyard devoted to 'Gwyer' graves dating back to the late 1700's and they did indeed fit with what we had found out.

003
023

Nick Weall, Istvan Farkas, Marco F. Delminho, Andy Rodker and 15 other people have particularly liked this photo

Comments
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne club has replied
(see the discussion)
It was John. Many surprises and hard work done by Michelle as the people who transcribe the documents make a lot of mistakes and some guess work if they cannot read it properly. When there are wills left it helps a lot with dates etc. Thanks for your great comments....Rosa.
5 years ago.
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne club has replied
(see the discussion)
There was a stumbling block Pat but my daughter's hard work and detective work got there eventually!!
5 years ago.
 Peter Castell
Peter Castell club
A lovely set of church yard images Rosalyn, I have never tried looking for relatives but I can see it could be addictive, I did find an uncle for an elderly lady I know she just knew that he had been killed in WW1, I think she bored everybody stiff when I gave her the information
5 years ago.
 Jean
Jean
How pretty. I love the framing.
5 years ago.
 Roger Dodger
Roger Dodger club
Nice series Rosa, good to have traced some definitive ancestral proof; I have been researching mine and a few others, on and off for the past ten years, can absorb a lot of time!
5 years ago.

Sign-in to write a comment.