Bluett family in Holcomb Rogus Chapel

 [large photos courtesy of Pauline Prosser; small closeups courtesy of Wikipedia.]. 

Buried in the small chapel of Hlcomb Rogus, Devon is the rather extensive Bluett family which includes four rather remarkable effigies. Of special note is the wonderful effigies of Richard Bluett (died 1614), his wife Mary Chichester (1548-1613), his grandson John Bluett (1603-1634) and his wife Elizabeth Portman (1602-1636).

Mary Chichester Bluett

Richard Bluett

center large plaque:

Mary the only wife of Richard Bluet of Holmcombe Rogus Esq. the daughter of Sir John Chichester of Rawleigh Knight and sister to the right honorable the lord Chichester, lord deputy of the kingdom of Irlande who has issue 6 sonnes viz: Arthur, Roger, Walter, Charles, Francis and Charles the yonger and five daughters, Gertrude, Amey, Ioane, Anne, and Dorothy, she departed this life the eleventh day of Februarie, 1613, beinge of the age of 65 yeres.

left side plaque:

Modest matron here doth lie [?]

A myrror of her kinde:

Her husband and her childrens good:

Her lyke is rare to finde:

Godly chast and hospitable

A housewife was she.

right side plaque:

Poore she often would releve

Yet would not wasteville be

Her death a patterne was to ___

Her life was good likewise

Her life & death assuer her ___

That she to joy shall ryse,

John and his wife Elisabeth Portman

Elizabeth Portman Bluett

John Bluett

Galärvarvskyrkogården, Stockholm, Sweden

[visited 15 May 2022]

A tiny burial space located just behind the Vasa Museum, this is the last in a line of cemeteries intended for use by the navy. 

Please visit the official cemetery website for more information.

According to one source, ten men and two women whose remains were recovered from the Vasa were reinterred here in 1963 beneath this memorial:

Vasa Memorial

von Rosen

Skogskyrkogården, or Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden

 [visited 15 May 2022]

A luscious, grand open space this UNESCO World Heritage site is more of a park than a burial ground and is probably most famous for being the final resting place of Greta Garbo.

For more information please visit the official cemetery website where you can sign up for guided tours and download the guide-map.

the Woodland Crematorium and Memorial Hall with Faith, Hope and the Holy Cross chapels

the visitor's center with cafe and gift shop

Greta Garbo

Durham Cathedral Graveyard, Durham, England

[visited 28 April 2014]

The churchyard outside Durham Cathedral in Durham, England gives us a glimpse into what most church burial grounds once looked like in the United Kingdom and in much of North America at one time.

William Pearson, 1759-1828

Haslewood

"Erected to the memory of The Reverend Dickens Haslewood A.M. who died Oct. 3rd 1821 aged 61 years. Also of Elisabeth, wife of Dickens Haslewood, who died July 1st 1825, aged 65 years.

If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."

Kitchin

"Great peace have they when love thy law

George William Kitchin, dean of Winchester, dean of Durham, chancellor of Durham University, 1827-1912"

Tucker

"Alfred Robert Tucker

curate of Saint Nicholas Durham 1885-1890

3rd Bishop E.Eq. Africa, 1890-1899

1st Bishop  of Uganda, 1899-1911

Canon of Durham, 1911-1914

1849-1914

I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness."

Memorial to those men from Durham who died in the Boer War

"Here lies the body of Mrs. Elisabeth Hunter, born at Medumsley, who died May 10th 1748 in the 80th year of her age"

Highgate Cemetery West, London, England

[visited 29 April 2014]

For more information see the Wikipedia site as well as the cemetery's official website. Note there is an entrance charge.

Rosilla Burt

Emma Wallace Gray

Sacred to the memory of

Emma Wallace Gray

second daughter of

George Hebden Gray,

of no. 4, Coleman St., city.

born the 20th of August 1827

Died the 20th of October 1845,

in the 19th year of her age

______

From the effects if fire, her dress having accidentally ignited ten days previously

______

In bloom of youth, when others fondly cling 

To life, I prayed, mod agonies, for death, 

And unappall’d his awful advent hail’d

The only pang my bleeding heart endur’d

Was, thus so early doom’d to leave behind on

Earth those whom I so dearly lov’d

John Maple, 1815-1900, and Emily Maple, his widow, 1819-1904

In Memory of

Isabella Jane Conolly,

of Hampstead Road,

died 15th February 1851,

aged 2 years.

“The Shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is shortest if it do not.”

and of

Isabella Conolly,

mother of the above,

who died 17th March 1873

George Stoneman 1778-1854

Thomas Sayers

Hodgson

In memory of 

Joseph Hodgson, Esq., F.R.S.

formerly of Birmingham,

in the county of Warwick:

who died in London, February 7th 1869,

aged 80;

having survived his beloved wife

only one day

Nichols

In ever loving memory of 

Mary,

the darling wife of Arthur Nichols, and fondly loved mother of their only son Harold, who fell asleep [illegible]

Andrew Morton

To the memory of Andrew Morton, Esq.

an artist of no ordinary merit,

he was gradually rising to the summit of his profession, and upon the eve of being elected an associate of the Royal Academy he was suddenly removed by the rapid progress of disease, from his labours, and the honours that awaited him.He was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, July 25th 1802, and die din London, August 1st, 1845

Wombwell and Bramston

To the memory of

George Wombwell (menagerist)

Born 24th Dec. 1777

Died 16th Nov. 1850

In memory of Ann wombwell,

widow,

died 3rd September 1876

Also to the memory of

Mr. Edmund Bramston,

of North Street, Pentonville

and South Mims Middlesex

Born 18th april 1808

Died 9th June 1859

Also to the memory of

Amelia Anne,

widow of Edmund Bramston

Born December 22nd 1815

Died March 12th 1904

Highgate Cemetery East, London, England

[visited 29 April 2014]

Highgate Cemetery in London is one of the very first garden cemeteries in the United Kingdom and is divided into East and West sections. The former is open to the public generally while the latter, being the oldest and of a more fragile nature, is accessible by both guided and self-guided tour (booking in advance is required).

While there are some truly wonderful sculptures here, especially in the East section,  I have included a number of graves with remarkable epitaphs as well.

For more information see the Wikipedia site as well as the cemetery's official website. Note there is an entrance charge.

Caroline Tucker

Elma Stuart

Elma Stuart née Fraser of Ladhope, Foxboroughshire

Whom for 8 1/2 years George Eliot called by the sweet name of daughter. She was pioneer in England of the Salisbury system of prevention and cure of diseases and author of “What Must I Do to Get Well? and How Can I Keep So?”

What tho’ thy name by no sad lips be spoken and no fond heart shall keep thy memory green. Thou hast left thine own enduring token, for earth is no as tho’ thou ne’er hadst been.

Few leave behind them such a beautiful memory, to be cherished in the hearts of their friends, as long as life lasts.

George Jacob Holyoke

George Jacob Holyoke 1817-1906 co-operator and social reformer

“I have cared more for co-operation than for any other movement in which I have been engaged.”

“Without honesty to principle there can be no progress in public affairs.”

Faithful, consistent, unswerving

A true soldier of liberty he sought and fought for the truth.

Karl Marx

Mansoor Hekmat Zhoobin Razani 1951-2002

To a great man, the essence of our lives, the polestar of my existence, the love of my life. Mercede.

Tom Wakefield

Twigg

In Loving Memory of

Gordon John Twigg (Mummy’s Little Angel).

who died April 24th 1921, aged 3 1/2 years.

Perfect little body, without fault

or stain on thee.

With promise of strength and manhood

full and fair!

Though gold and stark and pare

The bloom and the charm of life doth awhile

remain on thee.

Thy mother’s treasure wert though

Alas! no longer

To visit her heart with wondrous joy,

to be

Thy father’s pride - ah he

Must gather his faith together, and his

strength make stronger.

Ann Jewson Crisp, 1794-1884 note the relief of "her faithful dog Emperor"

truer words were never spoken

Thornton

Sweet thou art sleeping

Cradled on my heart

Safe in God’s keeping

While I must weep apart.

Puccini

a man with a clear grasp of reality

an Italian who fought for the Union during the American Civil War yet buried in London

Wainright

In loving Memory of 2nd Lieutenant Eric Lawrence Wainright, 15th Sikhs, I.A., and of Mussoone, India.

The adored husband of Alice Gertrude Wainright of New York, U.S.A., born 7th Aug. 1891, died 15th Sept. 1915, from gas poisoning contracted on active service.

_________

He died as he lived, a hero to the end and is sadly missed by those he loved.

He did his duty.

Gordon Bell (middle name Ernest though he placed no importance on it), 1942-1995

"Tomorrow do thy worst

for I have lived today."

Patrick Caulfield, 1936-2005 - dead indeed!

This vault and monument was prepared and erected by John Henderson Smith, R.N.R, who commanded the Thames Nautical Training College, H.M.S, Worcester for over twenty-five years, for himself and his beloved wife Jessie Henderson and her dear sister Mrs. James Ross.

George Willett

Anna Mahler

Philip Gould, 1950-2011

Bruce Reynolds, 1931-2013 

"This is it! C'est la vie!"