A black marble tablet on the floor of the north aisle of Winchester Cathedral. It commemorates the author Jane Austen.
Crikey! I’ve spent the day studying and preparing my talk for next week and nearly forgot. Here’s Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves. The theme is #NotableWoman, and my picture is the grave of the author Jane Austen.
The Cochrane family grave in Neilston Parish Church in Barrhead Photo (c) Lorraine Murray, 2024
Mrs Catherine Cochrane (Cranston) was widowed in 1917
31 days of graves themes for 2025 but @annaandthedead
Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves is #NotableWoman
To anyone who knows my areas of interest, it couldn't be anyone other than Miss Cranston of Glasgow tearoom fame. She died in 1934 and is buried with her husband in Barrhead
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She was married to Mr J. Barford, of Hadley Avenue, Anson Estate, Manchester and died after giving birth to a daughter, who sadly died the day after. Edith is buried in Manchester Southern Cemetery, Lancashire, UK - Grave Reference: M. CE. 2367. Her baby daughter is in a pauper's grave which listed about a dozen other names so they weren't buried together. In fact because Edith was given a CWGC headstone, it stands alone in a large area of unmarked graves. Her husband married her sister 6 months later!
I found out a lot about her life and death which enabled this research via her worker’s records and ancestry A lot more about Edith is on the entry I did for Lives of the First World War https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4940870
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In hospital but now catching up! So here is my #notablewoman and #military
Worker (equivalent to Private) EDITH BARFORD,of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Died aged 23.
a single headstone in a vast area of unmarked graves of those unable to afford a headstone
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A simple grey headstone dedicated to Gertrude Jekyll, Artist, Gardener, Craftswoman. Photo credit: monoceros, Findagrave.com
Three plain headstones placed in front of a stone exedra which is topped by a large bowl-shaped urn. They sit in a leafy graveyard. Photo credit: Carcharoth, Wikimedia Commons
A distant relative by marriage, the landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll is buried at St John the Baptist's Church in Busbridge, Surrey. Her stone stands with other family members' in a grouping designed by her friend the eminent architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens. #31DaysofGraves #Day12 #NotableWoman
