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Hattix t1_iu3yn30 wrote

That's a cenotaph, not a head stone. A cenotaph commemorates a person who's body is interred elsewhere, lost, or cremated.

A priest should know this.

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TheScottishMoscow t1_iu3fb80 wrote

I wonder if it was just impractical to get the body back from the USA so they knocked up a grave in England?

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ToneDeafComposer t1_iu3i04p wrote

I assume that's what it is. I believe it's called a cenotaph, but possibly that word is only used for more significant monuments than this.

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Lanigan1997 t1_iu3t3wk wrote

This isn’t all that unusual really. A cousin of my great-grandmother is interred in Birmingham but his gravestone is in Ireland. I’ve seen plenty of graves where one family member died abroad but they’re memorialised with their family in the plot.

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keirawynn t1_iu3ip94 wrote

Maybe they wanted to reunite the brothers in death, despite them being interred so far apart? Or there was family on both sides that wanted a memorial for both brothers.

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Jet_Jirohai t1_iu4pesr wrote

I'm not deaf, I'm flummoxed!

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brownsabbeth OP t1_iu3f8vs wrote

Interred in philadelphia but has a grave in a tiny village in lancashire....i found it interesting

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thecastingforecast t1_iu3g7sx wrote

The expense plus the stink. I doubt many ships wanted a rotting corpse onboard for days on end. They couldn't just pop them on a plane and get them home in a day. By the time passage was arranged and they were arriving in England the body could be weeks old.

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brownsabbeth OP t1_iu3g2l8 wrote

Are you not mildley interested? 1880 would suggest the lancs lad lived through the founding of philadelphia when it was a wild west town.

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Prudent-Beautiful-33 t1_iu47vwt wrote

>? 1880 would suggest the lancs lad lived through the founding of philadelphia when it was a wild west town.

Philadelphia would have been a "wild west town" in about 1680, not 1880.

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brownsabbeth OP t1_iu3ga4e wrote

Im sorry i darkend your screen with my post.

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brownsabbeth OP t1_iu3h2co wrote

Why would we? Did you get taught about the australian revolution? The eureka stockade? Anyway i found it interesting so thats why i posted it....dickhead

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pleasegodimpoor t1_iu7l97v wrote

I'm curious if there was more on the reverse?

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