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Elinor Pendrill born Oct 29th 1870 Died Nov 29th 1955
Alfred James Edgar Pendrill born September 12th 1896 Died May 11th 1940. Accidentally killed on board the ship Rangitata at Auckland Harbour, New Zealand and buried at Waikennete Cemetery.
Alfred was living at 133 Pembroke Road, Seven Kings at the time. His wife Beatrice Amelia Pendrill, nee Jennings, married 1927, departed for New Zealand the next year from Liverpool on February 27 1941 aged 47 [christened at Christ Church, Preston, Lancs]and no further trace remains of her. They seem to have had no children.
I think it's meant to be WAIKUMETE cemetery where he is rather informally named on the gravestone as "Alf Pendrill"
His father was Alfred George Pendrill - married 1895 in Holborn. died 1966 in Redbridge, aged 93 at Chadwell Heath Hospital, while living at 53 Meads Lane, Seven Kings.
During World War II, in 1940 Rangitata sailed from Liverpool with 113 evacuated children under the Children's Overseas Reception Board CORB scheme on 28 August 1940,bound for New Zealand through the Panama Canal in convoy OB-205, with SS Volendam (carrying children bound for Canada, which was torpedoed), with 113 CORB children arriving safely in New Zealand.
The SS Rangitata, built 1929, operated as a troop ship in WW2
Sister ship the Rangitane was sunk off New Zealand by a German boat in late November 1940, one of the largest passenger vesels to be sunk in WW2
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see Elizabeth Ann Plumb, 28 Dunbreck Road, Eltham died 1969.
Yet more colloquialism - the New Zealand grave - peeked here -
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describes his wife as "Beat Pendrill"!
An "A. Pendrill" a butcher's mate migrated to New Zealand in 1934, departing London on the SS Remuera [sunk incidentally in the North Sea in 1940 off Kinnaird Head, Scotland, a former regular ship to Pitcairn Island]] and 1932 on the Tamaroa - he may well have been an on-board shp's butcher.
Interestingly, Alfred Pendrill enlisted for the first world war into Australian Forces in Sydney. Next of kin, his mother Elinor nee Webb.
As long as life and memory last, I will remember thee. ...Beyond that, we all eventually become the forgotten and the unknown.
Eccleshall Road Cemetery, Stafford. 26th March 2009.
The Old Order Amish settlement at Tavistock, in East Zorra Township, lasted for about 24 years, until most families there moved back to Pennsylvania when the Ontario Government required Bulk tanks for cooling milk in the 1980's. There were two deaths during the existence of the settlement. No Amish cemetery existed for the local Amish church, so the burials were done in a Pioneer Amish cemetery now administered by East Zorra Township, about 8 miles from there. This is one of them. About a decade after her death, I made frequent visits to the home where her Husband (and second wife) and children lived. This Amish district would have reminded a person of Lancaster County Pennsylvania in buggy style, and in clothing style.
Ella Nissley ~ Wife of Henry Hertzler ~ Born 23 July 1923 ~ Died 3 Sept. 1961 ~ Age 38 Years 1 Mo. 11 Days
The Hertzler family emigrated to Canada from an Amish district in the State of Maryland, and later moved back to Pennsylvania, and then to New York State where Henry died, and then the youngest son moved to Pennsylvania again.
Gravestone, Bosham Church, Sussex. (Check out the inscription! It reads as: 'In memory of Thomas , son of Richard and Ann Barrow, master of the sloop Two Brothers who by the breaking of the horse fell into the sea and was drown'd October the 13th 1759 Aged 23 years'. Note that a 'horse' is a specific rope used in the rigging of sailing ships.)
Gravestones in Fort Scott National Cemetery at 900 E. National Avenue in Fort Scott Kansas. One of 14 cemeteries estabilished to bury Civil War dead. It is 3 years older than Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. Fort Scott National Cemetery was established in 1862. It is also known as National Cemetery No. 1. Fort Scott National Cemetery is one of two National Cemeteries in Kansas. The other is at Fort Leavenworth. Fort Scott National Cemetery is the final resting place for defenders of freedom from the Civil War to Vietnam.
NRIS #99000835. Added in 1999.
For more information:
www.kshs.org/resource/national_register/nominationsNRDB/B...
The Rev, Mr. Nathan AVERY is resting in the Great Plain Cemetery (#57) in North Stonington, New London, CT alongside his wife Hannah STODDARD.
I took this photograph in May 2004 while searching for the graves of Nathan and Barbary Steward. Although, I am an AVERY descendant, I was not sure if Nathan was one of my direct line ancestors but I was impressed with this amazing clearly preserved gravestone. I took this photograph prior to the time I learned to use a mirror to reflect light for clearer readings, so the sun shining at the right angle on this minister clearly comes from heavenly light.
Nathan was born 10 Mar 1712 in Groton, son of Christopher AVERY and his first wife Abigail PARK/PARKE. [Source: Barbour Index, Groton Vital Records: Avery, Nathan [s. Christopher & Abigail], b. March 10, 1712 Vol. 1, Page 127] and he married Hannah STODDARD on 27 Mar. 1746. [Source; Barbour Index, Groton Vital Records; Avery, Nathan, m. Hannah Stoddard, Mar. 27, 1746 Vol. 1 p. 127]
Nathan6 AVERY (Christopher5, James4, James3, Christopher2, Christopher1)
Wheeler's History of Stonington says that Rev. Nathan's house was on the lot where my 2nd great grandmother, Eliza Fish Denison Stewart, (Mrs. Dudley Stewart) was living at the time he was writing his book which was about 1900.
Wheeler's listing for Rev. Nathan (p. 203, 206-207) says he came from Groton to Stonington and purchases the farm and built the house (mentioned above). This part of Stonington is now North Stonington.
He "became a member of the Separatist or strict Congregational Church" and was ordained the pastor and remained so until his death. He was respected and had the confidence of his parishioners and was a devoted and able preacher.
The Barbour Index for Stonington lists his death as "Avery, Nathan, Elder, d. Sept. 7, 1780. Vol 4 Page 15"
Rev. Nathan Avery and his wife Hannah had eight children: Isaac, Nathan, Hannah, Mary, Luther, Stephen, Phebe and Wealthy.
This is a very small gravestone that is at the Morgantown Cemetery, it isonly about 4 inches tall and about 3 inches wide and less than 2 inches deep/
In the churchyard of the long-disused St. Andrew's Presbyterian. Vanished hamlet of Eversley, Ontario, Canada, now part of King Township. An interesting name, John Ann. She had a pretty good run, 68 years old at a time when the graveyards around York Region are full of testaments to those who died young.
In decent light and at narrow apertures, the old VF-101 does pretty well. This was almost certainly at f/16, or maybe even f/22, given the ISO 400 film.
Voigtländer VF-101
Color-Skopar 40mm f/2.8
Kodak Ultramax 400
Developed and scanned by Aden Camera, Toronto.
I'm not normally one for the macabre, however recent problems in tunnels getting the camera to focus on something in certain light seems to have been addressed by using manual focus. This graveyard was nowhere near as light as this photo may suggest, however some light pollution from the adjacent golf driving range at Drumoig Golf Course on the A914 allowed me to experiment in very similar lighting conditions to those in which I had struggled, nay failed on occasion, to secure a photo. I've blanked out the details on the gravestone.
When this cemetery was founded the area was probably well stocked with actual redwood trees. But the colonization of Northern California has been cataclysmic for nature. Redwoods in particular saw their numbers plunge by greater than 95 percent. We have second-growth redwoods scattered about, but not many are to be found in this weedy abandoned cemetery that bears their name.
Gravestone in replica cemetary at Souders Museum in Cheney Kansas. All gravestones were brought to the museum when the family got new gravestones.
A grave-marker at Lakeview Cemetery in West Salem, Wisconsin, nine miles east of La Crosse. The date on the grave-marker is incorrect as I checked La Crosse newspaper files and could find no mention of a train related death for November 23, 1936. However, I did find one for November 19 (see below) which checks out with the West Salem location. My guess is that the 23rd is when the unfortunate man was buried.
From the Friday, November 20, 1936, La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune:
Unidentified Man Killed By Train
An unidentified transient was instantly killed at 5 p.m. Thursday by the Milwaukee Railroad’s westbound No. 5 passenger train one-half mile west of the West Salem depot.Coroner Melford Nelson said the body was thrown nearly 150 feet by the train, falling to one side of the railroad right-of-way. Practically every bone in the man’s body was broken, the coroner said.The train crew reported the accident upon arrival in La Crosse, and section crews from West Salem found the body, notifying the coroner’s office.There were no letters or cards in the pockets of the man’s clothing. He was about 50-years-old, five feet eight inches tall and weighed about 130 pounds. He had blue eyes and a scar in the center of his chin. He wore a dark overcoat and blue overalls.The coroner said he was convinced the man was a transient because a mirror, razor, needle and thread, inner soles and other “equipment” of such wanderers were found in the clothing pockets.The body was left with Conrad Jostad, West Salem funeral director. Jostad aided Coroner Nelson in picking up the remains.
I think brightly coloured plastic flowers are quite effective, especially at this time of year.
Seen at Christchurch Cemetery, Newport, South Wales.
Cockburnspath Kirkyard contains several gravestones commemorating war dead. This one names no less than three Paxtons who died in World War 1.
164/366: A gravestone at Winchester Cathedral: Thomas Thetcher, who died at 26 years from 'drinking small beer'
Murgatroyd Family Grave: Albert, James, Clara and David.
Photograph of gravestone in Laycock Cemetery, taken in April 2009.
My first experiments with using textures. Which one(s) do you like best?
Here's the original. It's a grave in Senoia City Cemetery, Senoia, Georgia. My dad did a painting of this gravestone some years ago.
I made my own texture from a photo of our well-used Pampered Chef pizza stone. Here's the original of that, and here it is as I used it for a texture.