Meeks of Ruardean Hill (General)

by jimashton , Saturday, September 16, 2006, 06:24 (6644 days ago) @ nigel marshall

At Ruardean you have to search around the edges, and some are particularly difficult to read, so a wire brush is a useful accessory. I have dozens of pictures of Marfell headstones, one of which is for Emma Marfell nee Meek buried 7.3.1880 Ruardean. The difficulty of reading this one is aggravated by the bush that is growing in front of it. Emma's spouse Thomas Marfell married a further twice after Emmas's death. In the Forest Church, Drybrook a number of headstones are around the edge and to my view sacrilegiously some have been used as stepping stones.