Sophie Margaret 1845-1879

SACRED 
TO THE MEMORY OF
SOPHIE MARGARET
THE BELOVED
 WIFE OF GEORGE DEVEREUX  XXXX??
BORN 10TH JULY 1845
DIED 4TH JANUARY 1879
WITH CHRIST WHICH IS FAR BETTER(?)

(Hope to examine the stone for the surname
 if it is still there)

Alice Bielby 1845-1879

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
                  ALICE
(ZENANA MEDICAL MISSIONARY)

   THE BELOVED DAUGHTER OF
 ROBERT AND ALEY BIELBLY
   BORN MARCH 21ST 1845
     DIED APRIL 28TH 1879

SO HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP

The 1861 England census records show
that Robert and Aley Bielby were from Yorkshire city and their
daughter, Alice's 'estimated' age as 16  All ages are 'estimated' in the records. Robert Bielby's date of birth is estimated as 1818. 

Denzil Swing

Henry Francis died 1896

The inscription was difficult to read

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'.

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.

 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. 

Hilda and Thelma John 2014

Hilda John, an inmate of the Dorothy Crostwaithe Homes, who had old-age health problems passed away the same day as George Gunther during the hottest days this summer (2014).
 Her younger sister, Thelma, had passed away several months earlier.
I came to know the John family in the 1970's when they lived in Khandari Lane, Lalbagh Lucknow. The father, who had worked for the MES, had already passed on. There were the mother, eldest brother, Terry and Hilda and Thelma. Brother Gerry, who drove a cab and was the first of the siblings to pass on was married and was survived by his wife, Rita nee Vance, a daughter and three (?) sons. 

George Bernard Gunther 1946-2014

George Gunther

The Gunther family were from Ranchi, as George once told me, though he had spent some years working in Calcutta. 
Two of his sisters are presently living in the Crostwaithe Homes, one a spinster and the other a widow. The youngest sister, Bunny, retired from La Martiniere a few years ago. Her husband, Russel Carville, an old Martinian, retired after a short stint as vice principal of his old school where he spent most of his teaching career.

     In loving memory of
GEORGE BERNARD GUNTHER
29 April, 1946 - 28 April, 2014
A devoted son and a dearest brother

It broke our hearts to lose you,
But you did not go alone,
For part of us went with you,
The day God called you Home.

George

Shirley Jean Barnes died 2014

SHIRLEY JEAN BARNES
BORN 4TH DECEMBER 1955
DIED 23RD JUNE 2014

Shirley, nee Thompson, was married to Raymond Barns, an old Martinian,  and came from an army family. 
An educationist herself, the Barnes
couple had opened the Bishops Heritage School, Anandpur - Bihta, Patna.
As per her wishes, she was buried in
her mother-in-law's grave in Ranchi.
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Glen Barnes, younger brother of Raymond Barnes, died in his hometown, Dehra Dun on Nov 27 2019