Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Ivy, Herbert Shepherd, Robin Aitkins

Nishatganj Cemetery, Lucknow

Ivy Hourigan nee Shepherd Born 1910
 Died July 1971.

Herbert Clarence Shepherd Born- 1910 Died -1930 (?)
Klyne Kershaw Aitkins Born 6th Sept 1881
Died 1st Oct 1951 (Grandfather of Robin Aitkins)

Klyne Kershaw Aitkins Born 8th Sept 1881 Died October 1951
Graves Robin Aitkins , Ivy Hourigan nee Shepherd. Ivy's twin brother Herbert who was drowned in a jheel (pond) in the locoshed compound, Alambagh, Lucknow. Herbert got caught in underwater weeds. He had died not long after his father, George Herbert Shepherd, a retired  PWI of the O&R Railway  had passed away in 1928. Herbert and the friends who were with him at the time of the drowning were in the railway. Robin Aitkins, a good friend of mine died age 28 in 1980.
Ivy had retired from the Telephone Exchange, Lucknow not long before here death.
(George Shepherd guava gardens blog author)
Ivy Gladys Hourigan nee Shepherd was the wife of Kenneth-McLenon Hourigan

In loving memory of Marion Grace Aitkins,
 wife of Klyne Aitkins Born 3rd July 1871 (?)
Died 14th Oct 1945. 

Monday, November 22, 2010

Fwd: Memorials disappearing!



This is an older portion of the Nishatganj cemetery in Lucknow. These beautiful memorials are gradually disappearing.

Rosalind Symonds

Wife of Karl Symonds of the NER. Survived by son Karl also of NER, Ian, Keneth, Colleen-Colin (twins) Clifford and many grand and great grand children