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Robert Jex was my Great Great Grandfather.
He was born in Cawston, Norfolk, and baptised in 1823 at St Agnes church, Cawston, Norfolk.
The son of Robert Jex (1799) &
Mary Pratt (c1805)
He married Sarah Culley (c1826)
on 27th January 1842, at
All Saints Church, Briston, Erpingham, Norfolk.
They raised five children:
Henry (1842-1873),
Mary (1846-1916, my Great Grandmother)
Robert (1848-1913),
Sarah (1850-1866) &
Harriett (1852)
Through his working life he was a labourer.
He died in 1866, Erpingham district, Norfolk, aged 44 years.
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Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
Robert Jex was my Great Great Grandfather.
He was born in Cawston, Norfolk, and baptised in 1823 at St Agnes church, Cawston, Norfolk.
The son of Robert Jex (1799) &
Mary Pratt (c1805)
He married Sarah Culley (c1826)
on 27th January 1842, at
All Saints Church, Briston, Erpingham, Norfolk.
They raised five children:
Henry (1842-1873),
Mary (1846-1916, my Great Grandmother)
Robert (1848-1913),
Sarah (1850-1866) &
Harriett (1852)
Through his working life he was a labourer.
He died in 1866, Erpingham district, Norfolk, aged 44 years.
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Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
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Robert Jex was my Great Great Grandfather.
He was born in Cawston, Norfolk, and baptised in 1823 at St Agnes church, Cawston, Norfolk.
The son of Robert Jex (1799) &
Mary Pratt (c1805)
He married Sarah Culley (c1826)
on 27th January 1842, at
All Saints Church, Briston, Erpingham, Norfolk.
They raised five children:
Henry (1842-1873),
Mary (1846-1916, my Great Grandmother)
Robert (1848-1913),
Sarah (1850-1866) &
Harriett (1852)
Through his working life he was a labourer.
He died in 1866, Erpingham district, Norfolk, aged 44 years.
****************************************
Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
Robert Jex was my Great Great Grandfather.
He was born in Cawston, Norfolk, and baptised in 1823 at St Agnes church, Cawston, Norfolk.
The son of Robert Jex (1799) &
Mary Pratt (c1805)
He married Sarah Culley (c1826)
on 27th January 1842, at
All Saints Church, Briston, Erpingham, Norfolk.
They raised five children:
Henry (1842-1873),
Mary (1846-1916, my Great Grandmother)
Robert (1848-1913),
Sarah (1850-1866) &
Harriett (1852)
Through his working life he was a labourer.
He died in 1866, Erpingham district, Norfolk, aged 44 years.
****************************************
Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and the date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who cares
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
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