St Mary’s scene
The historic St Mary Cemetery in South End
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27/11/2010
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
Grave yard flowers
I found these flowers growing in St Mary's Cemetery the other day on one of my grave yard exploration trips. I'm not sure what they are, but any passer-by would have been very confused about this dude crawling around between the old graves.
16/09/2010
Graves at St Mary’s
The old St Mary's Cemetery is situated between South End and the city centre close to where the Baakens River flows into the Port Elizabeth Harbour. Some of the graves date back to the mid 1800's and include some of the original British Settlers who arrived on our shores in 1820. For a couple more of my pictures of the cemetery, visit The Firefly Photo Files here and here. The bridge in the background is part of the Settlers Freeway.
29/08/2010
James Langley Dalton
Driving down Russell Road towards town, the Russell Road Cemetery is situated on the left hand side. On the hillside in amongst what is left of the grave sites there is one that stands out clearly because of the fact that it is painted white. The grave belongs to James Langley Dalton. Dalton was a survivor of the Battle of Rorkes Drift and the recipient of a Victoria Cross. The battle at Rorke's Drift took place from 22 to 23…
22/08/2010