Hi Lynda, The rule of the chapel was that each grave had to have a gravestone, but what was put on the gravestone was up to the family. Some gravestones had no inscription at all, and the majority do not account for all the burials that a grave holds. I would not like to say how many people are mentioned in the MI's but the last entry number on the burial register is 6360 and I would think there is nothing like this number in the MI's. There is another group of burials that do not fall into the above rule, and they are the common graves, where no gravestone exists. There are a lot of these, and you would think they would fill them to the brim before starting on another new grave. It is hoped to re-publish the monumental inscriptions. Because of the the re-development a full transcription is been taken. This has highlighted a number of errors both in the MI's and the burials on my web site. When the transcription has been completed I will amend the web site and re-issue the new MI's to the libraries. I hope this goes some way to explain why some of your Edwards family do not appear on the gravestones. Hope this has been helpful, Roger Hart, Little Lever, Bolton, UK. -----Original Message----- From: Lynda & Dennis Jones [mailto:lyndenjones@bigpond.com] Sent: 19 February 2002 20:30 To: ENG-LAN-ECCLES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ECCLES] Monumental Inscriptions - Barton Wesleyan Chapel