Hopefully it will be Thursday - Saturday, 11 - 4.
New volunteers welcomed with open arms!
Friends of Hastings Cemetery Update -
New Stories
Absolon, William & grandson, Hackebarth, William H H - We do not know a lot about William Absolon, partly because it was a common name in Wallingford. From whence he came, probably for his health. Also mentioned is his grandson, William H H Hackebarth, who died aged 10 months. William was only 39.
Corby, Charles & Desiree Hortense Blanche - He was a London tailor and they lived at lived at Hollybank, Seddlescombe Road South. Currently there is not a lot known of them.
Strickland, Georgiana & Jane, (daughters of George, who built Harpsichord House and started a Hastings dynasty) and their nephew Louis Waghorn
Updated
Glen, John M Grey, his wife, sister in law, (M A Graham) and step-son - (Thomas Goldsworthy) Lucknow story; some of the mourners at the funerals
Strickland Family - son Herbert; parents, Francis (grandson of George) and Jane - daughter of Mary Ann Slade, and like her an active supporter of women’s emancipation and much more.
We have been advised of free online talks by the Church Monuments Society.
The nexttwo are as below. We have been assured by a viewer that they were well worth watching and she can’t wait for the next one.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/144062327299
The Cross-
A talk about cross-
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/144059825817
A Dead Good Job: Gravedigging in Municipal Cemeteries
An in-
