Warkworth Transcription Challenge.

[Coquet]

There is a Sarcophagus type grave in Warkworth cemetery (beach road cemetery, not the churchyard) which has me defeated.

Been back for a second look, still none the wiser. The text is a gothic type font.

Our friend Sod and his law comes into play here as the north facing side is clear and legible but is just verse, the south facing side is the one with the details and is of course illegible.

So anyone who is out for a walk in that area and fancies a bit of a transcription challenge take you notebook and pencil and get back to us on here with your results!












(Rest comes at length though life be long and dreary,
And earth's long shadows break in cloudless love.)

[leslie]

HARK! HARK, MY SOUL! (Faber) written 1854 . (Hymn)

John Howlison was grave digger for years he may be able to throw some light >(no i don't mean he dug this grave)

[Coquet]

HARK! HARK, MY SOUL! (Faber) written 1854 . (Hymn)

You're right. I was too much of a heathen to recognise it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTucuHFDzvk

Must have had some money for such a grand monument anyway. I'm sure we will have heard of the family.

[leslie]

The burial records will be kept by the Clerk of warkworth council as it is still in use ! an approach may throw light !

[Coquet]

Gorping at these photos for hours I've come up with:


......memory of Edward Richardson, eldest son of Edward Richardson, and of Jane Wigham his wife, formerly of Beech ........ Newcastle upon Tyne. He departed April 27th 1890 aged 54 years.

I think the Beech ......something is 'Beech Grove'.


can't find this family in the census to give a clue as to the mother's name. Not sure if they are Amble or Warkworth, or perhaps not here at all in 1881, but at Beech Grove.

mother's christian name in blue below:

[janwhin]

Impressive gorping work, Coquet. There is an Edward Richardson death, aged 54, registered in Alnwick district.

[Coquet]

Edward is in the death column of a London newspaper, published on the 30th April. Looks like they have the date death as the 28th when the stone says 27.

no more info found.