Saturday, 22 October 2016

The Legend of Long Bill Jenkins - William Daniel Jenkins (1767-1798), Nunhead Cemetery

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William Jenkins' burial in the bank as recorded in the burial register of St Mary Lothbury. On the 24th inst. died, at Edinburgh, ...
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Saturday, 15 October 2016

Owling in Barking; Captain John Bennett (1670-1716), St Margaret's Churchyard, Barking

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Captain John Bennett's tomb in Barking churchyard ‘HERE LYETH INTERR’D YE BODY OF CAP. JOHN BENNETT COMMANDER OF HIS MAJESTY SHIP L...
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Friday, 7 October 2016

The parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water; Ernest Schwarz of the Kalahari (1873-1928), Willesden New Cemetery

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“A most extraordinary story was told me by the late Professor Ernest Schwarz of the Rhodes University College. Many years ago, he said,...
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Saturday, 1 October 2016

London's Dead: A guided tour of the capital's dead - Ed Glinert (Harper Collins 2008, out of print)

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The thing about social media is that when you are talking you can never be sure who is listening.  A few years ago I wrote about Elias A...
Monday, 26 September 2016

Wild Scenes at Willesden New Cemetery

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A New Cemetery for Willesden  Dr Hoffmann, from the Home-office, attended at the Willesden Vestry-hall yesterday for the purpose of hear...
Saturday, 24 September 2016

The Georgie Girl who Died on Honeymoon; Georgina Robinson (died 1965) Willesden New Cemetery

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I was unable to find out any more than was revealed in the epitaph (inscribed with a heart with G inscribed on one side and M on the oth...
Sunday, 18 September 2016

"Let me have your wife's head and I will give you a pound." How a tooth extraction which went wrong led to a strange dispute between the surgeons of St. Thomas' Hospital and a sailor man.

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Crude techniques could lead to serious complications in early 19th century dentistry  Wednesday 3rd December 1817. Christopher Smith, w...
Sunday, 11 September 2016

Vagrant monkeys, stewed cat and the heart of a dog - from the casebook of the Solomon of Marlborough Street; Sir George Farrant (1770-1844) Kensal Green Cemetery

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DEATHS - Dec 15 (1844) In Upper Brook St Grosvenor sq aged 76 Sir George Farrant of Northsted House, Chelsfield, Kent a Justice of the P...