In Memory of
HENRY FRANCIS
OF THE UP POLICE
DIED 6 APRIL 1896
AGED 30 YEARS
IN MEMORY OF A CONSTANT DROUGHT
IN HEAR A CONSTANT SORROW
ERECTED BY HIS XXXXX
(From the touching words one can presume that would be 'wife' but then it could also be 'mother'.
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| Nishatganj Cemetery
The top pic I took some weeks ago because the brickwork
bothered me. It looked like a cubicle for a toilet!
I put the pic
on
facebook with a comment
and, maybe, just maybe,
a guy who is
a facebook friend and
close to the Catholic priests
played a hand.
On
Saturday 6, 2014 I found
nothing had been added. To make
room for burials old graves are wiped out by removing the
stones then fresh graves are dug in between. I have a feeling
the Henry Francis was buried nearby and the stone had been
moved!! I found other gravestones that I'd photographed last
time had been lifted and place some metres from their
original location bottom snap.
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I'll have to examine the inscription once again because the puzzling part is that the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh only came into being in 1902.
Henry Francis epitaph most likely reads In memory a constant thought, In Heart a constant sorrow. It is the same epitaph on his mothers grave Magdalen Francis
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