The Graveyard

[Jose Oranto]

PC Richard William Pearce (3 Mitre Square)...

It is at TCOLC in a row of about 10 graves under a 10-15 cm layer of earth and grass. I didn't have time to unearth them all, but on this one you can read the name 'Ellen Maria Pearce' (his mother's name in the 1861 census was Maria Eliza Pearce). If it is not this tombstone, it's another very very close. Someday I will return with more time.

This needs clarification; in this grave were buried:

PC Richard William Pearce, 21 Nov 1907
His son William Richard, Aug 29, 1902
His daughter Ellen Maria, Aug 17, 1893

I have obtained some very interesting complementary information:

Memorial Removed - 1970
Grave extinct – 12-30-2006

I have no idea what 'Grave extinct' means, is it like it has volatilized? there is a tombstone under the ground as can be seen in the photo, i dug it up. I think this covering (or letting them cover) those stone slabs in the floor was intentional. It seems that Pearce's grave is destined to be lost forever. I will try to find out more about this.

This photo shows the covered row I think I was talking about earlier, you can see four or five holes that correspond to graves I dug up.

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Sergeant Amos Dudman. New Camberwell Cemetery

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Inspector Edward Collard

Cemetery - The City of London Cemetery - 250/61255 (common grave)
Residence - Police Station City
Burial date - June 9, 1902

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The burial record of George Henry Hutt gives his place of residence at the time of his death as 2 Cutlers Terrace, so close to his last known home at 2 Canonbury Grove.

He and his wife, who died on the same day, were buried in Islington in the same common grave along with twenty other people.

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Detective Sergeant Lawley. Hither Green Cemetery

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The murder of Mrs. Mary Emsley in Stepney Green, 1860.

Looks like the East End version of “Aliona Ivanovna's murder”.
She was buried in a private catacomb in Tower Hamlets... who knows where this catacomb will be...

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Another lost grave in Tower Hamlets, Sergeant Eli Caunter