>Well, I'd say possibly, but I'm not sure, without checking the grave, that she wasn't past CB age.
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>Fair enough. I too have spend reflective hours in English graveyards reflecting on life and doing the "memento mori" thing. The number of female deaths in the late teens and early 20's is staggering and if you check the registers you'll see it wasn't unusual for a man of means to marry repeatedly as wives kept dying bearing heirs. The saddest one I've seen was an entire family of 8 kids dead of what they called "plague" with mother surviving another 40 years.

I see you spend the time on your trips here wisely :-)

Interesting. It's like these men of means used wives like shotgun cartridges!

On a tangent vein: I used to work in Worthing, and on the war memorial are etched the names of the local dead from the Great War, in alphabetical order. There are four presumably from the same family: "Slaughter" - I kid you not.