Donna, LAN-OPC has transcribed a large amount of information from the registers of St Michael, Great Lever, including burials 1851-1936. [1]http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bolton-le-Moors/Great-Lever/stmichael/index.htm l Sadly I'd guess that your chances of getting the church involved in buying an airmail reply stamp to write to you are probably no good, and their interest in setting about having a headstone re-erected pending the next vandal attack will be nil, unless you manifest as an significant overseas benefactor. Generally such churches are having a fairly difficult time and most of them probably think they are doing quite well if they manage to prevent the lead being stolen from their roofs. The felons attacking one local church, surrounded by housing on all sides, actually went even further and made off with the bell from its tower a few days ago. Perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised if they are less obsessed with their graveyards than we are. Regards, Bob On 23/07/2011 07:48, djmflag wrote: My g-grandparents Matthew and Jane Collinge were buried at St. Michael's church , Gt. Lever When we were there the monument had fallen over. I wrote the chur ch to see if someone could put it upright, but never heard I have since learned that there is a grave there with the name of a family of G reaves and was wondering if anyone knew what Greaves family it was. I was hopi ng it might give me some information as to my John Collings Thanks Donna Collinge Martens, Muskegon, Michigan DJMFLAG@ aol.com. \ :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [2]ENG-LAN-BOLTON-request @rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bolton-le-Moors/Great-Lever/stmichael/index.html 2. mailto:ENG-LAN-BOLTON-request@rootsweb.com