Lydney Monumental Inscriptions (General)

by 10noyrum , Sunday, September 19, 2010, 10:14 (5184 days ago)

The Monumental Inscriptions of Lydney have recently been transcribed by the Gloucestershire Family History Society (GFHS). The CD is available from their web-site or from their office in Gloucester.

I found the burial record of my ancestor Thomas Morgan who was buried on April 3rd 1711. There was also new data in that the age of death was also recorded. I now also have a photograph of the ledger grave. It is a moving moment when you stand over the grave of an ancestor who was born over 350 years ago, who lived through the Civil War, the excecution of Charles 1, the Commonwealth of that iconoclast Oliver Cromwell and still found time to have 10 children. I am descended from the youngest of his children William Morgan baptised 28th January 1680/81, Newland.

The grave lies under a Yew tree and I think this gave a measure of protection which has enabled the inscription to survive. This is because the ledger - a stone lying flat on the ground - would have been constantly covered by a layer of leaves which would have afforded protection from rain, wind, hale and snow.

The trancription is an improvement on Bigland in which my ancestor's MI does not appear.

Well done and many thanks to the GFHS!

Chris Morgan.