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Old 25-01-13, 10:27
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Default Another Rose / Parrott find!

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/lo...-ivy-1-4146990



They have only found this tomb in August last year.

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Wow! Are you going to be contacting the person mentioned on there, Elizabeth?
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I have just spoken to the man who wrote the article and he wants some more information.

He will probably put me in contact with another person who has a great interest in the history of Aylesbury.
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Old 25-01-13, 10:55
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I'm sending the journalist a brief synopsis on the family.
It's hard cutting it down!
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Old 25-01-13, 10:58
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Wow, especially as cutting the ivy was a "mistake" lol!! Makes me wonder what else is hidden in churchyards.
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Nothing more frustrating than finding a churchyard with an area left to go wild, thick with nettles.

Or pity those with ancestors at St Pancras Old Church or St George the Martyr in Borough - the gravestones have all been piled up together so you can't read them.
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The sister of the John Parrott mentioned here, Anne, is my 3x great-grandmother and she and her husband Daniel Jeffcoat were buried at Holy Trinity, Brompton. The headstones no longer stand - I thought I knew what happened to them, but I'm not sure. I thought they had been moved somewhere else.
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Great find Elizabeth. So fortunate that the inscription can be read, so sad when they are illegible.
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We saw the tomb on Tuesday when we went to the RO. I have taken quite a few photos and am transcribing the inscriptions.

We went into St Mary's church and got talking to one of the ladies who works there. She said that the man the journalist wants to put me in touch with is on holiday for a couple of weeks, which is why the journalist hasn't heard from him yet.
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Quote from the article:

"Curiously many of the children’s names who appear on the tomb had short lives, with one, Alfred, son of John and Harriet Elizabeth Parrott, only living for 13 months."

Nothing really curious about it since, as we all know, child mortality was very high until not all that long ago. You need to educate the journalist who wrote that Elizabeth!
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