Documenting & photographing gravestones, capturing the gravestone information & details before they become unreadable forever due to age, the weather and Mother Nature. Also researching the history (of the person who is on the memorial) & any life stories.

I research as much as I can, using various sources and records and try to be as accurate as I can be about them, but please make sure that YOU also do your own research, to verify the information that is recorded on here.

Please have the decency & respect, to credit me and my photographs (including Ancestry or any other family tree sites, or other sites). You are welcome to use MOST of the photographs on here for PERSONAL/PRIVATE USE ONLY (they are NOT for any COMMERCIAL USE or RESALE), APART FROM the ones that are credited to other people & organisations (you would need to contact them directly for permission) and I ask that you credit me (as I own & have the original copyright). Thank you.

I also use information collated from Ash Heritage Group, who have done many, many years of research into local familes from Ash, near Canterbury, Kent, they used various records/registers including vestry minutes, wills & probates, petty sessions, rates, 1705 register, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Consistory Court, settlement records, removal orders, Overseer Accounts, ALMS records, Churchwardens' accounts, Churchwardens' Cess, baptism, marriage and burial registers, marriage licences', B**** Register, Tithe maps, newspapers, family information etc, etc.

Ash Heritage Group.org.uk, also on Facebook.

Ramsgate Historical Society, on Facebook and Find A Grave.

Friends of Margate Cemetery Trust, on Facebook (Friends of Margate Cemetery page).

There is a map for the plot sections for St Nicholas Churchyard, Ash, next Sandwich, Kent on here, please go to the church photographs and scroll down, and you will see it there.

For example, if it says N01/01 that means N (new) section-ROW 01-GRAVE 01. e.g.N03/32-means N (new) section-ROW 03-GRAVE32.

e.g.M06/15-means M section-ROW 06-GRAVE 15.

e.g.SE199-South East section-grave 199. Etc, Etc.

These are the following sections/areas, which correlate to the plot numbers.

CH-Church (inside the church)

W-West Section

I-Inner Section

E-East Section

SW-South West Section

SE-South East Section

M-Middle Ground section

*N-New Ground section

GOR-Garden of Rest

St Nicholas Church, Ash, burial register; 1642-1654 is missing (B).

*In the N section (new), ROW 1 to 22, the plots numbered 01 start from the top (by the path), and the plots then go down in number to the bottom (near the hedge).

From ROW 23 onwards, the plots numbered 01, start at the bottom (near the hedge) and the numbers increase coming up the row (towards the path).

Acronyms;

A-Ancestry

AHG-Ash Heritage Group (Kent)

BMD-Freebmd (Birth, Marriage, Deaths)

BR-Burial record

CWGC-Commonwealth War Graves Commission

DOB-Date of birth

DOD-Date of death

FMP-Find My Past

FOMCT-Friends of Margate Cemetery Trust

F/S-Family Search

GRO-General Registers Office (Birth, Marriage, Deaths)

MMN-Mothers maiden name

RHS-Ramsgate Historical Society (Kent)