Genealogy Chat

hang on lynnxx

please go to this web site and read the appauling plans for your self. www (.) thisissouthwales (.) co (.) uk this is my local newspaper, a housing association plan to build homes on a gravesite. graves with headstones less than 50 years will be moved to a garden of rememberance. anything older will be smashed up and dumped. please voice your opinions with the newspaper as they are asking what you think. go to the above link, on the top below headlines there are 3 top stories, click on 4th page more and scroll half way down to read full write up. below that there is a comment box for you to fill in. PLEASE DO FILL IT IN........already many GR members have already done so. THERE ARE PEOPLE RESTING THERE!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU lynnxx

That is just so unnecessary. Why smash them up - its madness. In Norwich there has been an outcry because a new shopping centre has been built with old gravestones lining the pathway to the centre. Im torn really, it doesnt seem as respectful as it should be but at least they havent been destroyed. I cant see why a little piece of the land couldnt be given over to the stones.

Added my thoughts on the matter. What a disgrace. Alyson

A grave may not be tended for a variety of reasons. In 1997 we discovered just a few miles from here,the grave of my father in law's unknown,older brother. . He was just 14 months old, when he died in 1912. The family moved back to Hampshire, by early 1920s and the grave was probably not personally tended to until we found it...... It doesn't mean that no one cared. With no family in this area and limited means, the parents concentrated on looking after their 2 surviving sons. I think we should show our relatives respect by caring about what happens to their gravestones.

I have just been to the website and added my comments. How dreadful. Some people just need leaving on a distant planet all alone.I cannot even begin to say how furious and upset this has made me. Let's just hope the reaction that is coming will make a difference to these vultures and they will not desecrate this graveyard Sinead

Have added my bit to the site. Some of my family were from South Wales, haven't found were they were buried yet but unlike my visit to the churches in Shropshire I made this year to find my Ancesters graves I'm thinking in the future it may not be worth the 3,000 mile trip to visit Wales. Very sad!!!

thank you F.C. such a shame these graves are at such a risk from demolition. it turns my stomach. lynnxx

I've added my comments too - it's absolutely unspeakable! I live opposite a cemetery (and in social housing), so, I can see (literally) both sides .. but, nothing, nothing warrants this.

What worries me most is where will it end? If they get away with it this time then which grave yard is next? Once one does it then others will think they can too!!

F.C how very true! i was always brought up to respect a graveyard, walk around not over the graves, yet! they want to build a play park adjoining a primary school. kid's would be spooked with teasing stories, and how can you build 4 houses without digging down? invisible foundations? LOL lynnxx

Ahhhh yes the foundations.............carefully dug by hand..........I don't think!!! Which means there are going to be a load of bulldosers and diggers running all over the graves. Don't put that on paper for people to think about do they. When you think about what you see on a building site and then realise that's whats going to happen to the grave yard, it puts a bit of a different picture in your head.

just posted a reply. Commented also that I bet your Council make all correct noises if young thugs vandalise cemetaries!! What's the differance? Jay

Hi Miss Happy: Just send a message to the newspaper. I agree that this is just not right. Shiela in Canada

Ive no rellies in Wales as far as I know, but Ive been to the site and added my comments. Lib:))

Hi Mis Happy, only too pleased to support you on this very important issue. Might I suggest that GR members also do as I have and email the Swansea Housing Association, www(.)swanseaha(.)org(.)uk and the Prebyterian Church of Wales -www(.)swyddfa(.)office@ebcpcw(.)org(.)uk, or justt google Prestbyterian Church of Wales, after all they knew it was a graveyard and surely its their responsibility to their earlier parishioners to protect their graves. I'm totally disgusted with any religious body who allows destruction of graveyards. Grace

Hi Lyn, I have just been onto website & added my twopenneths worth. I think it is a disgrace. Hilary.

nudge. your comments have been published and can be viewed on the link. many thanks again. lynnxx

Just added my little bit, its an absolute disgrace and the desecration of these graves should never be allowed. Pam

I think it is terrible, what gives them the right to disterb the dead. When you lay some one to rest you don't expect some one to build on there a few years later. It is as if those people are worthless and forgot about, how would these developers like it if it was their loved ones they were building on. Let people rest in peace and their love ones have peace of mind that their loved ones are respected. Sarah