Edward Bickers, Residency Cem

Edward Bickers, Captain James S Shepherd

Edward Bickers, Barrister at Law, Late of the Oudh Commission: This grave is, perhaps, repeated because the last time I saw it the headstone was lying in the grass and now it's in comparatively better condition. Some burials in the Residency Cemetery were of people who in some way connected with the 1857 Mutiny but died subsequently. The last burials in this cemetery took place in the 1920s.  Mr Hilton was probably among them. I've got to photograph the Hilton graves among others.

Residency

These pictures were taken when I suddenly felt like taking a walk last evening (Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010). Here in Lucknow if you seek some seclusion and you live in the heart of the city, I cannot think of a better place than the Residency. Seeing the canoodling youngsters will tell you that its lonely enough!
 When I thought of putting Lucknow's fast disappearing human connection with the past, what the graves signify, on a blog I planned to do a better job. But it's turning out, in my mind, only better than doing nothing.
 One will find graves repeated, and since my visits are unplanned I'm usually without pen and paper to write down names where they exist. Several graves have no name, or time, the weather and human depredations have taken their toll.

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. 

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

Bandariabagh Cemetery, Lucknow

 

I visited the Bandariabagh (Sadar Cemetery) for a funeral on June 22, 2010. Walking around I saw the pitiable condition of the graves. I was surprised to find that some graves were being renovated. On enquiry I was told that funds had been received from abroad. That made sense! I also noticed that many headstones seemed to have been deliberately uprooted. Then I thought more work will require more money. Some of the graves are being reconstructed without the original headstones which are being replaced with metal plates for the names. The question is whose name will be on whose grave?

I took a few pics of the scene. One grave whose stone had fallen off revealing the bricks below interested me because of the shoddy work, a mixture of modern bricks with lakhauri bricks between, unusual for those days.

 

Edward Bickers