So week 17 hint was Cemetery. My cemetery visits are yet to materialise, hoping to start when I eventually retire, I know that might sound odd for those of you that are not budding genealogists but part of this odd hobby is the desire to go round churchyards and cemeteries finding ancestors grave sites hoping to find new clues to our ancestors and their families. That being said there are recent websites that have volunteers taking photos of memorials. One such website is BillionGraves, which is where I found this.
This is the gravestone of William and Rosina Wadey (Great Grandparents) William died after being involved in an accident on York Place. The coroners report reads as follows:- "Wadey William of 7 Circus Street, Brighton, retired chimney sweep; 71; at the Royal Sussex County Hospital; whilst crossing York Place on 30 Nov he was knocked down by a motor car which threw him in front of a tramway car whereby he sustained multiple injuries in consequence of which he died from bronchial pneumonia; accidental death"
The newspaper report at the time seemed to show that his injuries were not as serious as they turned out.
William was the third son of Stephen Edwin Wadey (1829-1904) and Mary Ann Johnson (1830-1876). Rosina was born Gravett one of 11 children of William George Gravett (1822-1897) and Mary Jeal (1828-1903) Both William and Rosina were born and lived in Brighton
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