The New Murrey and Blue blog

graveyards

Could there be ‘More’ to this Tomb?

Jun 23, 2024

buildings, genealogy, religion

Dorset, esses, graveyards, melplash, More family, netherbury, thomas fuller, Thomas More, tombs, william purchase

While out churchcrawling, I recently visited the rather remote Dorset church of St Mary’s at Netherbury. We were looking for the tomb of my partner’s ancestor, William Purchase, who was lord of the manor in the early 1800’s. We found his posh tomb in the graveyard…but when we looked in the church, I found another…
A visit to Beccles (2016)

May 11, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Azincourt, Beccles, Beccles Museum, Crowfoot family, Dorothy Hodgkin, East Suffolk Line, grammar school, graveyards, Horatio Nelson, Leman House, Lord Mayors of London, marriages, Nobel Prize winners, Norfolk Broads, Sir John Leman, St. Michael’s Beccles, Suffolk, Warwickshire

Originally posted on Mid Anglia Group, Richard III Society: To visit this town, by the southern extremity of the Broads, the Group assembled at the King’s Head, a short walk from Beccles station on the East Suffolk Line. After this, we met Murray’s late grandfather James Woodrow, local historian, to show us around the town.…