Update of of Information on 20th century Cemeteries

In 2007 I gave some advice on Burials in Stevenage in the 20th Century and included a web address which I now discover has been changed - and I have updated the link on my site accordingly. Jeff Knaggs' web site now contains memorial stone lists for the following cemeteries:

• Knebworth Cemetery
• Almonds Lane Cemetery, Stevenage
• Weston Road Cemetery, Stevenage
• St Mary's Church and Churchyard, Shephall, Stevenage
• Welwyn Cemetery
• Woolmer Green churchyard

Stevenage pages upgraded on my Web Site

Stevenage FHS

Stevenage was on of the Hertfordshire Towns which had been rather neglected in recent years and I have completely restructured the pages to make the information about the town much more accessible. In addition I had made higher definition images of some of the pictures and added new external links, including one to the Stevenage Family History Society. 

This change will make it possible for me to add even more pictures and information in future, and I have about a dozen pictures, etc, in the queue waiting to be added.

Visit the new Stevenage Pages

Dating Early Photographs by Latchmore, of Hitchin

Advert from Herts Express 4 April, 1867

This advert has helped me to date Thomas B Latchmore' early carte de visit as follows:

• 1865 Opened studio in Bancroft Street, Hitchin - distinctive back
• 1867 Opened a joint studio in Royston - distinctive back
• 1869? Opened another studio in Stevenage - no back known 
• 1870 Took over George Avery's studio in Brand Street, Hitchin - distinctive back. Studios in Hitchin and Royston apparently abandoned.

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Charles Stewart of Stevenage, obit 1796

A typical 18th century gravestone

CHARLES STEWART. OB. 1796

Adieu vain world I've seen 

Enough of Thee

And am careless what thou 

Canst say of me

What Faults you have seen in me 

Take care to shun

And look at home enough 

There's to be done.

An epitaph from Stevenage recorded in Cream of Curiosity

Remember - Your assumptions may not always be correct

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Ebenezer Albert Fox

At the end of May I attended the Herts Family History Society Meeting and also took the opportunity to walk round the village of Woolmer Green. At either side of the entrance to a modern housing estate there was a brick pillar, each surmounted by a bust. One was labeled Ebenezer Albert Fox (1857-1926) and the other Albert Ebenezer Fox (1857-1936). So I decided to ask myself a question and find out who these obviously important twins were. Had they lived in a big house that had stood where the estate now is ... ... ??? 

I was in for a surprise - read what I found out about 

The Fox Twins