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At last my project is finished!

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I would like to share the finished project of re instating my Jennings family graves at Key Hill cemetery with my friends here. This has been a long haul started in 2004 and thanks to my family for financial help and my friends for their work and support especially. Colin Giles, Key Hill Brian, Barry, Dick Empson and Pauline Roberts.

The graves are opposite each other there would originally have been a path between them.
 
well done Wendy. You must feel such a sence of achievment. Key Hill is a major part of Birminghams history,a history that is being kept for us all to share by the hard work that you and other members are doing. Thankyou. and thanks for introducing so many of us to this little part of Birminghams past.
 
Wendy,
That looks great! :) You must be thrilled to have it standing back up where it belongs. You have done your relatives proud.
I can't wait until mine is done - that will be another one off Brians xxx tally!
Polly
 
Looking good Wendy. I know a lot of hard work went into this, you must be so pleased. If only the ancestors could see......or maybe they can!? :rolleyes:
 
HI WEND...WHAT A LONG HAUL YOU HAVE HAD:rolleyes: WELL DONE YOU.....YOU HAVE DONE YOUR RELLIES PROUD....NOW TAKE A BREAK:)

LYN XX
 
Thank you all for your kind comments. This project was done for the Jennings family for generations to come!
 
Just seen this Wendy - want to add my congrats to you for all your hard work. A great achievement - amongst so much destruction that was wreaked in Key Hill.

Millie
 
Well done Wend. Well we now know a lot more about our family roots now with you and Michael doing the detective work on where we came from and how the Jennings family came to Birmingham all those years ago, having little information to go on, as we lost Dad at a very early age you only sketchy information to go on but with your perseverance we now have a concise history of our family,and now a lasting memorial for future generations of the Jennings to go and see.
 
Wendy , a job well done and something to be proud of. Bringing the past into the present for the benefit of the future. I had better go ,I am waxing lyrical. Now what did I put in that coffee, must try it again.
 
I will check the records I hold. I do know that there are many in the catacombs that are not listed. This seems to be all the ones in public catacombs, and not the private ones (the vaults did not sell very well, so they went cheap to the 'hoi polloi'). It's only a guess, but it does look like anyone who had not got money was not worth recording. Sad, but true.
 
I would like to share the finished project of re instating my Jennings family graves at Key Hill cemetery with my friends here. This has been a long haul started in 2004 and thanks to my family for financial help and my friends for their work and support especially. Colin Giles, Key Hill Brian, Barry, Dick Empson and Pauline Roberts.

The graves are opposite each other there would originally have been a path between them.

Well done Wendy.


ladywood
 
Yes, They are there, but in the public end - (don't worry, my 3 x gt grandfather is in the public end, too), Charles is in G3 which is a vault (burial ref 23633) , died 1875, Eliza Alice is in Section A, grave No 44 (burial ref 13001) died 1857 and Elizabeth is in G1, again a vault, burial ref 22098 died 1872.

It's a long time since I have been to Key Hill, but I did know it almost intimately at one time. At this moment I cannot absolutely be perfectly certain exactly where the vaults are, but I will shortly be able to give you the complete information. Unfortunately, what I can't do is let you see inside the vault! I understand that the vault contains shelves on each side and the coffins lie on the shelves, but don't quote me on that, my information may not be quite right (I am a bit rusty). If you have the address your Kilmisters lived at, that should determine whether they are yours or someone elses.
 
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