Diolch Dai, another super-useful video. Having lived outside Wales for 25 years now means that each trip back includes a fair amount of visiting graveyards and cemeteries all over the country. Whilst visiting Rehoboth Chapel in Corris I was most impressed with the long lasting quality of the slate gravestones. Many of them, from around the mid to late 19th Century, were in such excellent condition that the text on them was as legible today as it was when engraved!
Croeso. Glad you enjoyed :) Yeah the slate ones seem to last really well from some of the pictures I've seen. I've had such a fun time going through tombstone inscriptions, I'm super thankful that so many have survived, even if they only go back so far.
Also I love the work you and Janet and everyone are doing over there at A Few Forgotten Women. I do some reading on your website every once in a while :)
Yeah, I think just about everything I mentioned can be applied all throughout Britain. Or in the least, keep the different concepts in the back of your head while looking at your Cornwall graveyards and ask like "Family burial plots: to what extent are people doing that in my place?" But like the overall tombstone boom and technological changes were happening all throughout Britain.
Diolch Dai, another super-useful video. Having lived outside Wales for 25 years now means that each trip back includes a fair amount of visiting graveyards and cemeteries all over the country. Whilst visiting Rehoboth Chapel in Corris I was most impressed with the long lasting quality of the slate gravestones. Many of them, from around the mid to late 19th Century, were in such excellent condition that the text on them was as legible today as it was when engraved!
Croeso. Glad you enjoyed :) Yeah the slate ones seem to last really well from some of the pictures I've seen. I've had such a fun time going through tombstone inscriptions, I'm super thankful that so many have survived, even if they only go back so far.
Interesting summary of the history, thank you
Glad you enjoyed! :D
Also I love the work you and Janet and everyone are doing over there at A Few Forgotten Women. I do some reading on your website every once in a while :)
Thank you @@GenealCymru
Thank you! That was very helpful.
No problem! Glad you found it helpful! :D
Interesting history
Glad you enjoyed!
Hi Dai!! Do you know whether there are similar burial traditions in Cornwall?
Yeah, I think just about everything I mentioned can be applied all throughout Britain. Or in the least, keep the different concepts in the back of your head while looking at your Cornwall graveyards and ask like "Family burial plots: to what extent are people doing that in my place?" But like the overall tombstone boom and technological changes were happening all throughout Britain.