In Lucknow, as in other parts of the world, graves mean little to some people, but a search on the internet proves otherwise! What one will find on this blog isn't even 'a drop in the vast ocean' of tears that would have been shed if it were possible to calculate. The names, the sad poetry, quotes and expression of grief of the loved ones all being ground to dust. "...We always say that the history of a parish is in its graveyards..." Passage West (from a blog and book by Jim Murphy)
Friday, June 13, 2014
James Andrew Tole died 1907
JAMES ANDREW TOLEWHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 28TH JUNE 1907
AGED 57 YEARS & 7 MONTHS
(I think its very noticeable that most of the old graves are incomplete, crosses, angels and cherubs or some decoration has been stolen. Then, one might ask: How does it matter when not before long there will be no grave at all?)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Irene Shepherd died 2012
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| Harold Melville |

IRENE SHEPHERD
nee MACFARLANE
WIFE OF HAROLD MELVILLE SHEPHERD
ENGINE DRIVER, NER
DIED 2012.
She was survived by her daughter, Joan, son, Stanley and four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Harold Melville who retired as a driver from the North-Eastern Railway, was
the son of George and Mabel Shepherd. He was born in 1915, died 26th November 1999 almost three months after his younger brother, Ivan
passed away.
Harold's body was recovered from the railway tracks at platform No. 1 at Lucknow's Charbagh Station and disposed of as unidentified. He was identified from GRP photographs three days later when the body had already been confined to the Gomti river at Pipra Ghat. It was after his younger brother's death that he said he suffered from a ringing in his years that could drive him to suicide. The Tinnitus-like symptoms were never checked.
Irene was from the MacFarlane family of Hubli, south India.
William Sherd 1832-1903
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In Loving Memory
of
MY BELOVED HUSBAND
WILLIAM SHERD
BORN 9TH MARCH 1832 DIED 19TH FEBRUARY 1903
DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS SORROWING WIFE AND CHILDREN
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A LIGHT HAS FROM OUR HOUSEHOLD GONE,
A VOICE WE LOVE IS STILL'D,
A PLACE IS VACANT IN OUR HEARTS,
WHICH NAUGHT ON EARTH CAN FILL.
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