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 1837 - Victoria
becomes Queen
The cemetery company has
been operating for one year. There have been a few private
burials. These include the first three burials, all of whom
were young women, all just in their twenties. The three died
of common Victorian causes.
Queen Victorias Corronation Robes
Mary Ann Fish died of consumption, as did the second Mary
Ann Wheelan. The third died in childbirth.
At this stage the cemetery was a romantic, classical landscape
with few monuments and this year it was enhanced by the addition
of a memorial to William Parker, a cutlery exporter.
His monument was in the style of the Choragic monument to
Lysicrates in Athens and is still one of the most striking
monuments in the cemetery. It is listed as a Grade II monument.
Choragic
Monument, Athens
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