Martin Nicholson's Cemetery Project

All Saints, Long Whatton, Leicestershire

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We like churchyards that contain slate gravestones because they remain legible for hundreds of years.


A memorial to a gardener erected by his employer.


Four children died in their infancy - two consecutive babies were called Joseph.


Mrs Martha Townley died in "Child Bed". We cannot recall ever seing the title Mrs on a grave.


The wife served her employer for 53 years and her husband served for 40 years.


Mary Garner died "of a bleeding cancer".


William Allt was pastor of his own church which meant some people loved him and others hated him. "Some say he was without a fault. And others say theres none had more."


Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.

This page was last updated on September 8th 2012