‘What is this Death? – a quiet of the heart?'

Firebrand. Exile. Political revolutionary. Epistolary genius. Poet.

Lord Byron died on April 19 in 1824 during a thunderstorm in Missolonghi Greece from the effects of a fever and probable medical incompetence.

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"This Rogue is theirs, and we the honeft Folks" Epigram on Turpin (1739)

Executed on this day, the myth of the highwayman and iconic Essex boy Richard Turpin remains entangled, along with his bodily remains within the chronicles of the City of York.

Requiesce in pace.

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Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter 🐣

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From Churchyard to Spa Town?

Within the pages of the MARCH publication of The Dalesman Magazine I unearth the poignant story of a Yorkshire lass from Harrogate.

⚰ Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK.

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Under the palest of blue skies and wrapped up against a biting wind - I've managed to squeeze in a moment or three for a little church crawling and tombstone sleuthing before lunch en famille.

💒 The Parish Church of St Mary Bishophill Junior. York. UK.

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Captured under an insipid winter sky and wet grass - the beautifully decorated memorial to one Gertrude Agnes Ware, her youngest son Kenneth and her infant daughter Aileen Teresa.

⚰ Parish of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK.

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Cemeteries? Graveyards? I LOVE them!

If I'm not sleuthing an elusive ancestor, unearthing another life lost to history, or haunting the archives as @deadsleuth.com - I could be wandering among the tombstones somewhere.

See YOU in the other side?

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A headstone decorated with an urn draped in extravagant stone fabric tells of the fate of the teenaged Albert Cregson who was drowned at sea in the year 1860.

⚰ Wakefield Cemetery. Sugar Lane. Wakefield. West Yorkshire. UK.

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As if in mid air and captured by the @deadsleuth.com - this cloaked angel with eyes downcast adorns the monument to eight year old Thomas Clarkson who entered into spirit in the year 1872.

⚰ Wakefield Cemetery. Sugar Lane. Wakefield. West Yorkshire. UK.

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Shielded by tangled ivy and dried ferns - a weeping angel adorns a small pale monument to one Agnes Jane Allison who entered into spirit in the year 1871.

⚰ Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.

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Aged stone in hues of a soft grey palette captured against the dying of a January day.

⛪ The Parish of All Saints. Rudston. Driffield. UK.

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A memorial now lost to the ravages of time tells us of the heartbreaking story of infants Christopher and Henry Perkins who died a day apart and were buried together one July day in the year 1810.

⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK.

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A tombstone now decorated in beautifully worn stone perched under a bright winter sky one winter afternoon.

⚰ Parish Church of St Mary. Whitby. North Yorkshire. UK.

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Shielded by imposing wrought iron bars under a blanket of palm leaves and foliage - the WHITSON family monument hides from the curious.

⚰ Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand.

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Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas. 🎄

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Monday afternoon. The view from my world.

From my garden to their forever home. A little ancestral grave festive gift and tidy up for my maternal 2 x Greats.

🪦 York Cemetery. York. UK.

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Excellent day showing my fellow sleuth & genealogist @graveyardsquirrel.com around some of the 9 acres of Wakefield Cemetery 🪦

'At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.' ~ Laurence Binyon

#ArmisticeDay #LestWeForget

'Went the day well?
We died and never knew;
But well or ill, England, we died for you.'

~ John Maxwell Edmonds

Lest We Forget 🥀

⚰ York Cemetery. York. UK.

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Remember! Remember?

In the NOVEMBER publication of THE DALESMAN MAGAZINE - I muse upon sleuthing the 'missing infants', the meaning of ancestral inheritance and a legacy of murder.

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Remember! Remember?

In the NOVEMBER publication of The Yorkshire Dalesman magazine - I muse upon sleuthing the 'missing infants', the meaning of ancestral inheritance and a legacy of murder.

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I LOVE graveyards!

If I’m not in search of a missing ancestor or trawling through parish records - I will be wandering around a graveyard somewhere.

For those tombstone tourism exploits why not catch @graveyardsquirrel.com scurrying from graveyard to cemetery and then some?

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'Him who is dead and gone, honour with remembrance, not with tears' ~ Saint John Chrysostom.

Framed by infant ferns and vibrant autumnal leaf - a partially buried gravestone protects the long forgotten at rest.

⚰ Parish Churchyard of Holy Trinity Micklegate. York. UK.

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'This Star for a Moment Given'

Peppered with moss and standing tall among falling leaves underneath a greying October sky - the monument to one John Fisher who died at the age of three months in the year 1851.

🪦 Parish Churchyard of St Olave. York. UK.

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A broken wing, a halo and with one tiny perfect foot peeking out from under an elaborate stone gown while protected by a delicate cobweb are all that remains of an angel perched upon an tombstone.

⚰ York Cemetery. UK.

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A little early morning tombstone appreciation before I resume my desk and kettle duties for @yorkfhs.bsky.social

And, if you have ancestors to sleuth, you can find me at the RAYLOR CENTRE in YORK at YO10 3DW.

I vanish at 4pm.

⚰ Parish Church of St Denys. York. UK.

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If there was ever a gravestone appropriate to the industrial revolution this one from Batley Cemetery fit the bill perfectly. It is worth expanding the photograph to read the words. Image "My flanges all refuse to slide" Tim Green CC BY 2.0

As summer shadows dance across verdant grass, iconic familiar old stones are bathed in a low evening sun.

⚰ The Cholera Burial Ground. York. UK.

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