Graves and grasses
Grasses shining in the afternoon sun in St Mary's Cemetery
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25/07/2012
Rev Francis McCleland’s grave
Over the last two years every time I visited the St Mary's Cemetery I've had a look for Rev Francis McCleland's grave without any success. Grizel Hart, the curator at No.7 Castle Hill, explained to me where to find it and on my last visit - after again walking right past it twice - I found it. Rev Francis McCleland came to to Algoa Bay in one of the 1820 British Settler parties and became colonial chaplain in Port Elizabeth. He bought…
11/04/2012
St Mary’s Cemetery gate
The entrance into the historic St Mary's Cemetery at the bottom of Valley Road. I love wandering through St Mary's and discovering all the old graves, some belonging to original 1820 British Settlers.
18/03/2012
Grave Search #4
This is the last of the Grave Search posts that I have at the moment. I have one more grave that I'm struggling to find, but will post that as soon as I find it. The request read as follows:"One of my wife's distant ancestors is buried in that cemetery, and I wondered how easy it would be to get a photograph of his grave. James Hancock was born on 1 May 1776 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. He married Ann…
06/11/2010
Grave Search #3
Grave Search #3 is a request I received from Jenny in Australia via a comment on the blog. Unfortunately She never left an e-mail address, so I haven't been able to send them to her directly. I hope you are seeing this Jenny. Jenny asked: "Hi, was wondering if you are ever back at St Mary's Cemetery if you could take a photograph for me of one of my ancestor's resting places. The location is - Plot: CD/M4 - the…
30/10/2010
Grave Search #2
The second grave in my Grave Search series was a request I received not long after the first one. Indigo asked me if it wasn't possible to track down her great grandmother's grave in the South End Cemetery. After the first search I knew where to go and find the information and found this one a lot easier than the first.
23/10/2010
Grave search 1
Regular readers of both my blogs probably know of my fascination with old cemeteries which leads to often posting grave pictures, specially on The Firefly Photo Files. The only reason I post most on there and not here is cause I often discover interesting grave yards in small town while on holiday and weekend outings and it doesn't fall within the Port Elizabeth area. Anyway, due to the fact that I post these I have had a couple of people e-mailing…
09/10/2010
Grave cross
On a recent exploration of the Russel Road Cemetery here in Port Elizabeth I found this very interesting grave stone cross. It kinda reminded me of a Celtic cross and probably got its inspiration from the Welsh connection amongst the 1820 British Settlers as the grave dates from the mid 1800's.
21/09/2010