{"id":1037,"date":"2005-11-23T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/23\/23-november-2005\/"},"modified":"2005-11-23T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T08:22:18","slug":"23-november-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"23 November 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I discovered last night by consulting the Archer family tree that this is my great-great-grandparents’ grave<\/strong>. I photographed it near the door of Harlestone Church in Northamptonshire a couple of weeks ago. The family tree confirms the names, the place of death and the rough dates. The non-family shrub just clouds the issue.<\/p>\n

William and Elizabeth (nee Benson)<\/strong> were the parents of Jane Archer, the 13th of 15 children. She married my great-grandfather Henry Lenton.\u00a0 The grave also contains the remains of\u00a0 Jane’s brother Henry<\/strong> and his wife Sarah (nee Child)<\/strong>.\u00a0 They had five children, of whom the oldest, John Henry, married Mary Child. Clearly the two families were close.<\/p>\n

I saw the grave of another brother, William<\/strong> (fifth of 15; Henry was number three), at East Haddon. He was buried with his wife Mary Anne (nee York)<\/strong>. The graveyard is unusual in that the area in front of the church has been grassed over, apart from a couple of old and indecipherable tombs, and the tombstones have been placed in rows behind the church. William and Mary had nine children.<\/p>\n

William senior (my great-great grandfather) was the oldest of\u00a0 eight children.\u00a0 His father John Archer <\/strong>was born at Winwick <\/strong>in 1755. I visited one Winwick (near East Haddon), a tiny dead-end village which has picturesque houses and a stream running through the centre of it, alongside the lane. No trace of an Archer in the churchyard, but the graves were very weathered. I noticed after arriving home that there is another Winwick further to the east and still in Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n

John died at East Haddon<\/strong> in 1837: I shall have another look for a grave next time I visit. His wife Martha (nee Davies)<\/strong> was born at Harlestone and probably died at East Haddon. The two villages are only a few miles apart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered last night by consulting the Archer family tree that this is my great-great-grandparents’ grave. I photographed it near the door of Harlestone Church in Northamptonshire a couple of weeks ago. The family tree confirms the names, the place of death and the rough dates. The non-family shrub just clouds the issue. William and … Continue reading 23 November 2005<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}