St Leonard's cemetery - Badlesmere Lees, Kent
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Parish cemetery at St Leonards's church, Bladlesmere Lees.
Waymark Code: WM119VB
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/13/2019
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Parish cemetery at St Leonards's church, Bladlesmere Lees.
"Under one of the yew trees outside is an old churchyard cross made of Bethersden marble. These crosses dominated the churchyards before the Reformation and were the only memorials to the dead in the days before gravestones. The oldest tombstone has on it a scull and cross-bones and an hour glass, and is "To the memory of Thos.Weldeth who died in 1679 aged about 80 and Hester the wife of by whome he had issue 7 sones and one daughter". So, he was born in 1599."
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