Finding My 6x Great Grandparents' Grave
Recently, I decided to have a little jaunt around northern Somerset to have a look at some of the parishes where some of my ancestors lived. I went with my mum as it was her side of the family and she wanted to know more about them.
One of the parishes we went to was Blagdon; a picturesque village surrounded on one side by Blagdon lake - of which we ate are lunch by before going off towards the church. We parked in the free car park there and followed the footpath to the church which included a small field with sheep in. The church was fairly big and we did find names relevant to my research. We also met some lovely people in the church who showed us around the church including viewing a big painting of the last supper but from a view of the back of Jesus.
Onto another parish, Hinton Blewett - a great Somerset place name, the village was fairly small but we found the church easily when we eventually got there! The church was fairly small but had a nice size graveyard to go through. Starting at one side we decided to go anticlockwise around the graveyard as it seemed the most natural way to go around. We started of not finding any relevant graves before we came to a fairly big stone of the Gregory family; not our ancestors' grave but a relative nonetheless so we took some photos and then a transcription of the grave. Very soon after we came to another big grave that had been weathered but the name Pool was certainly able to be seen; so I tried to take a transcription. One name on the stone was John Pool who died in 1863 (which was familiar to me) so I carried on reading to find out he had a wife called Rachel! Bazinga - this was our ancestors - my 6x great grandparents and my mum's 5x great. I took many photos of the grave as well as a full transcription. A photo is shown below:
One of the parishes we went to was Blagdon; a picturesque village surrounded on one side by Blagdon lake - of which we ate are lunch by before going off towards the church. We parked in the free car park there and followed the footpath to the church which included a small field with sheep in. The church was fairly big and we did find names relevant to my research. We also met some lovely people in the church who showed us around the church including viewing a big painting of the last supper but from a view of the back of Jesus.
Onto another parish, Hinton Blewett - a great Somerset place name, the village was fairly small but we found the church easily when we eventually got there! The church was fairly small but had a nice size graveyard to go through. Starting at one side we decided to go anticlockwise around the graveyard as it seemed the most natural way to go around. We started of not finding any relevant graves before we came to a fairly big stone of the Gregory family; not our ancestors' grave but a relative nonetheless so we took some photos and then a transcription of the grave. Very soon after we came to another big grave that had been weathered but the name Pool was certainly able to be seen; so I tried to take a transcription. One name on the stone was John Pool who died in 1863 (which was familiar to me) so I carried on reading to find out he had a wife called Rachel! Bazinga - this was our ancestors - my 6x great grandparents and my mum's 5x great. I took many photos of the grave as well as a full transcription. A photo is shown below:
John was John Marmaduke Pool, named after his father, and Rachel was formally a Rossiter - 15 years older than John and they married each other in Cameley on the 8 December 1811 by license. John was a yeoman and they had many children together; one of which, Francis, is included on the grave with his wife Harriet.
There were other relevant graves in the graveyard but to find your 6x great grandparents was certainly amazing!
Published: 25 August 2016
There were other relevant graves in the graveyard but to find your 6x great grandparents was certainly amazing!
Published: 25 August 2016
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