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Saturday 1st September - Ghost Hunting Expedition

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Posted by: knightrider45 Saturday 1st September 2007, 11:45pm

Yesterday, Friday, we took our Australian cousin Home properly as we went grave hunting searching for her ancestors in our graveyards.

Armed with a list of burial grounds from their family tree, I took my wife and the two cousins on a long grave hunting campaign, looking for the Double family ancestors.

Over a period of 7 hours, we visited graveyards at Horinger, Wickhambrook and Hawkedon and we were sucessful in locating 4 family graves, going back almost 200 years.

The village churches we visited were beautiful buildings in their own right, but not so the graveyards. Overgrown, unkempt and neglected. And in the last two graveyards, bulldozers had been used to level the ground and old gravestones just swept away, in pieces, up into corners.

Isn't that wrong? There are actual people buried there - families who had paid extortionate amounts of money for gravestones that were to be disregarded like last weeks rubbish.

And now, with cremations becoming the norm, future generations of our children won't even be able to go around visiting their relatives graves, both because of the local councils 30 year(?) reuse policy and the cremations that leave no markers, no remains, almost as if the person never existed.

Okay, I'm getting down from my soap box now.

Today, our lady cousin spent the day with the Mother-in-Law who took her around her past world, as my M-in-L's brother is our cousins father. So our cousin saw where her dad grew up. Another piece of the jigsaw put in place.

Tomorrow, we're off to visit the Muckleborough collection, stopping off at Wells on the way back so our cousins can see our sea. That's our last proper day together, as we're leaving for Birmingham airport at 3pm Monday.

Now that's something none of us are looking forward to. At all. Monday will be extremely sad and gut wrenching. How come we can grow to love people we've never met before in just 21 days?

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