The London Dead
Stories from our cemeteries, crypts and churchyards
Thursday, 20 April 2017
The horrible murders, attempted suicides and frighful execution of William Bousfield
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The 1856 Death Register for Quarter 2 (April to June) unusually records the demise of no less than 8 Bousfields, a surname one would have t...
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Monday, 10 April 2017
The Other Andrew Ducrow; Andrew Ducrow fils (1842-1863) Rangiriri Cemetery, North Island, New Zealand
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Commemorated on the Ducrow Mausoleum , on the same panel as his father (and below the famous epitaph ‘Erected by a genius for the recept...
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Saturday, 1 April 2017
The Colossus of Equestrians; Andrew Ducrow (1793-1842) Kensal Green Cemetery
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WITH the exception of Philip and John, the two Astleys, equestrian annals cannot, we believe, furnish a finer instance of a more consumm...
Monday, 20 March 2017
Wearing Prince Albert's Ring; Queen Victoria's widowhood and the Albert Memorial
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"So, Albert goes with the Queen to Windsor after the [wedding] ceremony?" "He'll go further before morning." ...
Friday, 17 March 2017
Splendour in the dust; David Roberts (1796-1864) West Norwood Cemetery
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DEATH OF MR. DAVID ROBERTS. On the afternoon of Friday last an elderly gentleman walking in Berners Street fell down in fit of apoplexy....
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