This may be one deciphering too far?

annabel

annabel

Puts the Heart into Hertfordshire
Whilst looking for info on my other thread, I have come across a photo of a grave stone which seems to be the right one in the right village, but I cannot read the bottom. Is it in anyone's power to read what it says after "Also of Elizabeth daughter of George and Maria Barnes", something about William s? It may be part of a sentence, as there is a bit more underneath but it was not highlighted. Sooo frustrating
also of elizabeth.png
 
Not through deciphering, but a possible answer:
THE BELOVED WIFE OF [thanks, Huncamunca - I'd read it as 'below']
WILLIAM SLADE SYMONS

Thanks for this to the Gravestone Photographic Resource at www.
gravestonephotos.com
who list this grave, but without mentioning William. However, Elizabeth is given as having died 1877 aged 38.

FreeBMD has the marriage of an Elizabeth BARNES in the Hungerford Reg Dist to William SYMONS or SLADE SYMONS (Mar qtr 1874), which seems likely - and with this hint, the name after William certainly looks rather like Slade. Finally, Hungerford Reg Dist deaths in 1877 (from FreeBMD) have an Elizabeth SYMONS (Mar qtr, age 36), but no Elizabeth DREW.

A slight age discrepancy - but with a stone like that, it might actually have been 36 misread as 38 anyway.
 
Good for you, Arthur; how satisfying to find something like this.

I'd go for the full William Slade Symons on the stone, or else the writing wouldn't be centred.

Believe it or not, I only found out, by chance, just now, that you can make the photo bigger :rolleyes: Talk about twerps o_O
 
Thank you, that is an amazing piece of work. Even when I knew the marriage details, I struggled to get it to come up on Ancesrty!

But just to make it clearer it was the right death, Elizabeth died 1st quarter 1877, and William remarried 2nd quarter 1877
 
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