Wednesday 17 June 2015

I love monumental inscriptions!

And of course, the people who trudge around churchyards making transcriptions of aged and weathered headstones. Hats off to you, because they are such a boon to the family historian. After finding Ann Fletcher's marriage to John Jackson, I thought I had better check out this "Norton" from whence he came (great phrase that!) Turns out to be a place called Norton Lindsey in Warwickshire with the Jacksons being a prominent farming family of the time. The inscription for Ann Jackson very kindly identified her as a "daughter of Richard Fletcher of Charringworth" Another document I found courtesy of Dear Google indicated that her death was recorded by the coroner as "a Visitation from God", the modern equivalent being of natural causes.

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