Dear Sheila, Thank you for your kind offer to look at the gravestone itself. Billion graves doesn't give any info on its position but from the photo, I would say that it is propped up against a wall or the church itself, rather than in the ground. As I say, it is a mystery as to why she was in Dover at all, though my mother's eldest sister is likewise buried far from home at St Leonards on Sea where she had been taken to recover from meningitis but died there, so maybe Ellen's was a similar story. Because it is a large stone with a lot on it, it is not a pauper's grave! The CATHs were reasonably well off, so there would have been support for her widowed mother. By the way, Billiongraves have stopped one being able to contact the photographer and/or transcriber of gravestones, so I cannot get any help from that direction. Usual problem with some people being nasty! Very many thanks, Jenny Jenny Bussey (UK) Guild of One-Name Studies member 3625 One-Name Study for CATH worldwide On 21 March 2016 at 15:54, Sheila Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Jenny, I live 5 miles from Dover so if no one is able to help you I will pop to the cemetery and have a look after the school holidays. I see she was buried at St Mary's, does billion graves gve a plot number? > Sheila > Constantine One Name study > [email protected] > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jenny Bussey via <[email protected]> > To: Forum <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:31 AM > Subject: [G] Gravestone at St Mary the Virgin, Dover > > > Dear friends, > > I have found this photo of the gravestone for 9 year old Ellen CATH, > but am having great difficulty in deciphering it. She was the > daughter of Thomas CATH (d. 1831) and Jane RUSSELL. She was born about > 1826 (though I have not found a record for this) and died in Dover on > 7th > September 1835, buried on 11th September. If anyone can help with > reading what is actually on the gravestone, I should be most grateful. > > https://billiongraves.com/grave/ELLEN-CATH/9969400 > > The address given in the church record is Military Road, Dover, but > basically they were a London family. Could this have been an > orphanage? Her mother did not re-marry until after she died. > > Many thanks. > > Jenny Bussey (UK) > Guild of One-Name Studies member 3625 > One-Name Study for CATH worldwide > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message