Wednesday 11th November 2020
A matter that has only come into the W.M.G.C. within the last couple of days or so is the story of some form funerary stone, or memorial marker, being discovered in the cellar of a fairly 'local' house....
The family concerned have lived in the house for a number of decades now and the stone was discovered, secreted in a corner of the cellar, when they first moved in. The epitaph relates to one Mary Pearson, who was born in 1851 and died in 1890. If actually made around the death date carved on it, the stone pre-dates the building of the house by approx 15 yrs (give or take). There was once an occupant of the property with the same surname as carved on the stone.... so perhaps this person simply 'brought it there with them', when they moved in, for whatever reasons?
While we have not been able to visit the property as yet and examine the stone personally, it looks - from the photograph and video received - as if it is possibly made from a slim slab of sandstone-like material. While fairly well executed - you can clearly make out the lines used to plan out the lettering - it still strikes as somewhat 'amateurish' in nature? Rather than being a 'gravestone', it very much resembles an epitaph slab, for affixing to a wall, or perhaps a side slab from a table-top tomb, possibly?
In an endeavour to try and discover exactly who Mary Pearson might have been, we have once again asked our good friend, Genealogist, Lyn Tambe, to kindly look into the matter for us. Within a very brief time, Lyn was able to suggest one candidate - with a given birth date of 1852 - for the area concerned. It is, however, still early days yet.... so the search currently continues!
There isn't exactly any hint of a 'pressing' case of haunting involved, as such... the occupant only report some slight, potential, 'activity'.... but, together with the presence of the stone, we did find the matter quite intriguing, it could probably go without saying!?
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