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