St Andrews Churchyard

[nessa]

Hello,

I have just been looking at some new photographs on the site from St. Andrews and notcied that one photo Mallosa had posted said that it may have been the cause for outbreak of disease, it was titled Black Tile Brick, I was interested to which outbreak it referred to. Also serveral of the photo's were of my family graves which i am grateful for, how do you decide which graves to photograph, are they random.

Thanks Nessa

[peterd]

All graves were photographed that could be read and who could be found on the 1911 census, there still quite a few to go on and a small section of the graveyard still to be done

the black tile graves infomation was obtain from some locals whom i got talking to and i passed a comment about no headstones or marking hence was given the reply that the graves were from outbreaks of diseases, if this was more than one outbreak i dont no ?


hope this helps

[peterd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherton,_West_Midlands


"The churchyard also contains the mass unmarked graves of the victims of cholera that struck Dudley in 1831 and 1832."


also

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