Happy Easter

[Hugh Watkins]

When I stayed with my granny at Usk we would visit, clean up and put
some flowers on the family grave for Easter Week.

Instead of virtual daffodils may I suggest other group users post
details of the location of ancestral graves known to them.

Which will be usefully archived for descendants and cousins to find
when you and I are long gone


Hugh W

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from
<http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?
op=DESC&db=jones_raglan&id=I116>

John Jones b: 1816 d: BET 1881 AND 1891
+ Mary Holmes b: 1816

probably St Cadocs Churchyard, Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales

3 Edward Jones b: BEF JAN 1842 d: 18 JUL 1900
+ Mary Jones b: 1848 d: 12 MAY 1887
Rustic italiante cross in white marble near north wall
St Cadocs Churchyard, Raglan, Monmouthshire, Wales

4 Blanche Eveline Jones b: 5 JUN 1874 d: 5 JUL 1953
+ Alfred Henry Watkins b: 13 AUG 1862 c: 2 NOV 1862 d: 2
JAN 1935
5 Hilda Mary Watkins b: 19 MAY 1903 d: 21 MAR 1928
white marble cross - now lichen greened
by the war memorial and west wall St Mary's churchyard Usk

5 Alfred Henry (David) Watkins b: 17 AUG 1907 d: 24
SEP 1942
lost at sea HMS Somali

+ Alison Mary Lapham b: 16 MAY 1908 d: 22 DEC 1999
her ashes spread in her garden at 230 Widney LAne, Solihull by the
apple tree - probaly under the corner of the new owner's double garage

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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=hughw36&id=I0375

St Mary's Llanfair Kilgeddin, monmouthshire Wales
WATKINS Family Grave is by the south eas corner of the church

Thomas Watkins b: ABT 1763 d: 20 AUG 1837
Rebecca Watkins b: ABT 1796 d: 6 MAY 1859
Thomas Watkins b: 4 MAY 1821 d: 28 MAR 1879
+ Margaret Bill b: BET 28 APR 1818 AND 1822 d: 11 MAR 1895
3 Thomas Watkins b: 1847 c: 19 DEC 1847 d: JUL 1934
+ Frances (Fanny) Maria Holmes b: 8 JUN 1851 d: 1921'

and with other descendants and siblings

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hughw36&id=I0009

some of their children
Vivian Holmes Watkins b: ABT 1890 d: 20 FEB 1915
Cemetery:PONTYPOOL (PANTEG) CEMETERY Monmouthshire, United Kingdom
Grave or Reference Panel Number:A. 6.

http://www.cwgc.org.uk/detailed.asp?casualty=390149

4 Horace Holmes Watkins b: ABT 1891 d: 21 OCT 1914
Cemetery:YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIALIeper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave or Reference Panel Number:Panel 22

4 Mervyn Holmes Watkins b: BEF SEP 1893 d: 18 SEP 1918
Cemetery: DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERYGreece
Grave or Reference Panel Number: I. E. 6.

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my mother's parents
Grave 64 Dark Blue AB , Canford Cemetery, Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol,
England

2 Alfred Thomas Lapham b: 15 OCT 1872 d: 30 JUL 1961
+ Florence Caroline Evans b: 13 JUN 1877 d: 1 FEB 1956