Wendy Percival

As you'll know if you've been following this blog recently, I've been curious about the stories behind the gravestones in the churchyard next to where I live (see Churchyard Mysteries and subsequent posts). Like most family historians, I love wandering round churchyards and occasionally I'll come across an interesting or intriguing inscription. On the gravestone of Luke Hosegood, who died in 1895, is a lovely poem which sums up the setting in which he is buried. And when I di