by Janet Seaward | Oct 30, 2014 | ancestors, ancestry, England, Funeral, Georgian, graves, gravestone, graveyard, halloween, haunting, historical, history, London, memory, Uncategorized, victorian, Victorian style, victorian values
Unlike the Victorians, when it came to holding a funeral, our earlier ancestors thought less about the pleasantries than getting their deceased relatives sent off quickly, cheaply and efficiently. Britain had been besmirched with war, plague, cholera and, in general,...