I met you in the summer (yes) and you were in the graveyard
What were you doing?
Recording gravestones
This was covered up but I, I have-
It's not quite matching up to what the records say
But anyhow, it's a bit difficult but I am
I am just about there, but
If there's anything under here, I haven't got it
So we have to be very, very careful, so I use a toothbrush
I've been at it three years, but I just live across the road
And I just come over when the weather's good and I feel like it
We do get people coming, we had people coming from Australia
With a wonderful story about how their ancestor had been
Dismissed by his father, sent abroad to Australia
'Cause he was always trouble
And he'd gone to Australia and made a very good life
You know, and yeah, yeah, it's lovely when you hear things like that
It makes who is buried there come alive
When you discover things like that
They, we've been appalled by the way there's been erosion
On the gravestones, and a lot of them we can't read
So I decided that it's very important to record what was there
For future generations
I've, I've, I've made a plan of the graveyard
And I'm, I've got the plan of all of them, and numbered the graves
And so there will be the plan
There is a story of one of the Church Warden's children scrubbing the graves
From there, we had to move on
There are very few stones but we know there are many bodies
Some people are very disappointed when they come
And they can't find anything, and they forget
Yeah, most people in this village would have been very, very poor
You know, possibly before there were graves
No, no, no I have met someone who's
Wanted to come back to the churchyard
And there isn't a stone
For a very young child, most of the time
And she needed to come back
And also she really wanted to have an involvement
Which she could come back to, and
This village there was a constant row of families
There was never one family who was here for
You know, many, many years
And I don't know whether that's normal in villages
Or why did they die? I mean there are some records of
Sons and daughters dying early
And of course we don't, records don't tell us why they died
For no other reason there is one grave there
I am absolutely, I'm furious, I just cannot decipher it
It is the most tantalising amount of-
Is that, I mean I'm not sure if you can remember
Our conversation in the summer (yeah)
But is that, and Lee got some photographs of one and-
That's the one that I'm still trying to do
What is the name? It's 1807, which is just when my register started
Edna? (It's lovely, yeah)
I think it's Edna
Edna T, an F?
No idea, it could be T, it could be F, it could be...