Hi Suzannah, I have forwarded your 'A family historians lament' to several relatives and friends, it then to receive wholehearted appreciation. Expect it has gone on to attract even wider acclaim. Thanks indeed for posting it. What a pity you are not doing Whitstable Cemetery monument inscriptions. Have relatives in that town, but none really into genealogy and willing to wander round graveyards, although they are quite interested in what I have discovered about the DANIELS/RIGDENS. Then there is the RIGDENS and CAREYS of Canterbury, but more importantly for the benefit of my cousin Dr. Daniels in Sydney, reference his Henry DANIELS. John writes: Some not so good news in that the GRO was not able to locate Henry's death cert between 1940-1942. Looks like a trip back to the Canterbury cemetery to see if I can find the grave that I thought to be his. Never mind, persistence always pays off. Anyway, to help I thought I would contact your goodself and further, make mention on the IoT and Kent lists. Maybe there's a kind someone who is familiar with either or both burial grounds? Kind regards Michael in Clacton, Essex, quite a step from Whitstable, although we can, from our balcony and under good atmospheric conditions, just make out the Kent coastline 30 miles distant across the Thames Estuary.