Picture of a Georgian gravestone in Leeds.
Walking around the churchyard of the church of St Wilfrid at Calverley a few days back I noticed this small headstone with just a few words incised on it by a stonemason. The words on the gravestone are: W G died Jany 21st 1811, aged 4 years. I know nothing about WG, not even if a boy or a girl. The headstone is nicely carved by a mason who knew their craft back in the days when it was all done by hand.
These were tumultuous times here in the England of 1811 when this youngster died and was buried here in Leeds, Yorkshire. This was the period of the Napoleonic Wars and also the Anglo - Swedish War 1810–1812
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