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The Graveyard Squirrel

@graveyardsquirrel.com
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Among the Tombstones with Tee. Genealogist, Ancestral Storyteller, Speaker and Grave Hunter for Hire as THE DEAD SLEUTH. Sleuthing YORKSHIRE and Beyond. Dead Botherer @deadsleuth.com Founder @teebylo.com Tombstone Tee - graveyardsquirrel.com

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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 03/09/2026
A monument rich in symbolism tells of a husband's love for his wife Martha who died in the autumn of 1917 and of his daughter Christina Mary who entered into rest in 1876. Robert Miller would be reunited with his family in 1931. 🪦 Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand. #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 01/08/2026
'Ey up! Today is Yorkshire Day! And if you are celebrating - 'av a good 'un. #YorkshireDay
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 26/07/2026
Cemeteries? Graveyards? I LOVE them! For if I'm not sleuthing an elusive ancestor, unearthing and scribing another life lost to history, or haunting the archives - I could be wandering among some tombstones somewhere. See YOU on the other side? #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com with @teebylo.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 30/06/2026
Against a backdrop of leaning gravestones and enveloped with ivy in colours of lime and sage - a round topped stone celebrates the life of a beloved husband, one Charles Hawker who went to sleep in the year 1876. ⚰ York Cemetery. York. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 25/06/2026
Despite the ravages of time, a decorative stone celebrating the life of one JOSEPH KIRK who died in the year 1815 in his 53th year stands defiant. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. York. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 23/06/2026
Nestled under a tree abundant in leaf and coated in a blanket of moss, a decorative chest tomb of pale stone blackened in history awaits a visit from the curious. ⚰ Bunhills Cemetery. London. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 11/06/2026
Against a backdrop of characterful foliage, enveloped the greenest ivy and topped with an urn draped in a stone cloth denotes the grave of one JOHN WALLACE who died at the age of 63 in 1859. ⚰ Glasgow Necropolis. Glasgow. Scotland. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 09/06/2026
Nestled against a backdrop of lush hedges and shielded by trees - this beautiful monument is the work of sculptor John Throp (1820-1889) and commemorates Miles Moulson, a stonemason who died in 1856 aged 48. ⚰ Undercliffe Cemetery. Bradford. UK. #GraveyardSquirrel #TombstoneTuesday
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 17/05/2026
As the afternoon sun plays hide and seek - I'm enjoying the view among the bluebells and creeping buttercups in one of my favourite gardens of the dead. 🪦 York Cemetery. York. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍 with @teebylo.com and @deadsleuth.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 16/05/2026
On the day before her 68th birthday and with her beloved granddaughter Anne Isabella Noel King by her side - the estranged spouse of the poet, the Lady Byron died on May 16 in the year 1860. ⚰ Kensal Green Cemetery. London. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 19/04/2026
‘What is this Death? – a quiet of the heart?' Firebrand. Exile. Political revolutionary. Epistolary genius. Poet. Lord Byron died on April 19 in 1824 during a thunderstorm in Missolonghi Greece from the effects of a fever and probable medical incompetence. #StillSleuthing 🔍️ @deadsleuth.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 07/04/2026
"This Rogue is theirs, and we the honeft Folks" Epigram on Turpin (1739) Executed on this day, the myth of the highwayman and iconic Essex boy Richard Turpin remains entangled, along with his bodily remains within the chronicles of the City of York. Requiesce in pace. #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 05/04/2026
Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter 🐣 #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #CravingChocolate #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 19/03/2026
From Churchyard to Spa Town? Within the pages of the MARCH publication of The Dalesman Magazine I unearth the poignant story of a Yorkshire lass from Harrogate. ⚰ Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 12/02/2026
Captured under an insipid winter sky and wet grass - the beautifully decorated memorial to one Gertrude Agnes Ware, her youngest son Kenneth and her infant daughter Aileen Teresa. ⚰ Parish of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 10/02/2026
A headstone decorated with an urn draped in extravagant stone fabric tells of the fate of the teenaged Albert Cregson who was drowned at sea in the year 1860. ⚰ Wakefield Cemetery. Sugar Lane. Wakefield. West Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 05/02/2026
As if in mid air and captured by the @deadsleuth.com - this cloaked angel with eyes downcast adorns the monument to eight year old Thomas Clarkson who entered into spirit in the year 1872. ⚰ Wakefield Cemetery. Sugar Lane. Wakefield. West Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 03/02/2026
Shielded by tangled ivy and dried ferns - a weeping angel adorns a small pale monument to one Agnes Jane Allison who entered into spirit in the year 1871. ⚰ Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 29/01/2026
A memorial now lost to the ravages of time tells us of the heartbreaking story of infants Christopher and Henry Perkins who died a day apart and were buried together one July day in the year 1810. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 27/01/2026
A tombstone now decorated in beautifully worn stone perched under a bright winter sky one winter afternoon. ⚰ Parish Church of St Mary. Whitby. North Yorkshire. UK. #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 22/01/2026
Shielded by imposing wrought iron bars under a blanket of palm leaves and foliage - the WHITSON family monument hides from the curious. ⚰ Symonds Street Cemetery. Auckland. New Zealand. #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 24/12/2025
Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas. 🎄 #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #YorkyHistoryLass #FamilyHistorySleuth #StillSleuthing with @deadsleuth.com 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 22/12/2025
Monday afternoon. The view from my world. From my garden to their forever home. A little ancestral grave festive gift and tidy up for my maternal 2 x Greats. 🪦 York Cemetery. York. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #YorkyHistoryLass #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 11/11/2025
'Went the day well? We died and never knew; But well or ill, England, we died for you.' ~ John Maxwell Edmonds Lest We Forget 🥀 ⚰ York Cemetery. York. UK. #ArmisticeDay #LestWeForget #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 04/11/2025
Remember! Remember? In the NOVEMBER publication of The Yorkshire Dalesman magazine - I muse upon sleuthing the 'missing infants', the meaning of ancestral inheritance and a legacy of murder. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍 @deadsleuth.com
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 30/10/2025
'Him who is dead and gone, honour with remembrance, not with tears' ~ Saint John Chrysostom. Framed by infant ferns and vibrant autumnal leaf - a partially buried gravestone protects the long forgotten at rest. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of Holy Trinity Micklegate. York. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 19/10/2025
'This Star for a Moment Given' Peppered with moss and standing tall among falling leaves underneath a greying October sky - the monument to one John Fisher who died at the age of three months in the year 1851. 🪦 Parish Churchyard of St Olave. York. UK. #GraveyardSquirrel #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 02/10/2025
A broken wing, a halo and with one tiny perfect foot peeking out from under an elaborate stone gown while protected by a delicate cobweb are all that remains of an angel perched upon an tombstone. ⚰ York Cemetery. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 02/09/2025
As summer shadows dance across verdant grass, iconic familiar old stones are bathed in a low evening sun. ⚰ The Cholera Burial Ground. York. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #YorkyHistoryLass #FamilyHistorySleuth #GraveAndBeautiful #TombstoneTuesday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 14/08/2025
Nestled in a bed of lush grass against a sky of cerulean blue - a restored grave of the palest stone celebrates the life of one SIDNEY REYNOLDS who drowned at sea at the age of 16 in the April of 1876. ⚰️ The Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Parnell. Auckland. New Zealand. #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 07/08/2025
Lichen topped and standing tall amid cotton clouds - a monument to recollect the life of one MARGARET DEWAR (1860-1939) and that of her family in Queenstown. ⚰ Queenstown Cemetery. New Zealand. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #YorkyHistoryLass #TeeAndTombstones #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 17/07/2025
"Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone." ~ Franco NERO. Against a cerulean sky with slivers of summer cloud - an intricate cross atop a stone plinth stands within a quintessential churchyard. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of Selby. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 08/07/2025
Within a peaceful churchyard, a mottled and worn gravestone adorned with beautiful script tells of the life of JOHN HOLMES of Acomb and his family. John who died in February 1841, would later be reunited with his wife JANE in 1856. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. UK. #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 03/07/2025
I. Within a picturesque churchyard near York and framed by long grass is the tomb of EDWARD TENNYSON (1813-1890) Edward was the younger brother of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet laureate (1809-1892) and had been institutionalized since his teenage years.
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 29/05/2025
A garland of leaves and an inverted flame of everlasting light denotes the resting place of one Mary Horton (1728-1795) in a quiet churchyard of Acomb in York. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. York. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 22/05/2025
A mossy tombstone rich in symbolism of faith and eternity - the monument to one Mary Noble (1836-1903) within a tranquil churchyard in Acomb. ⚰ Parish Churchyard of St Stephen. Acomb. York. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #TombstoneThursday #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 20/05/2025
🪦 Framed by garlands of ivy - the simple grave of Sir Ian Frederick Cheney Bolton Bt. K.B.E. (1889-1982) awaits the curious taphophile at The Necropolis in the City of Glasgow.
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 17/05/2025
A old stone cross against a backdrop of coloured leaf. The view from my world today. 🪦 The Parish Cemetery. Selby. North Yorkshire. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #YorkyHistoryLass #TeeAndTombstones #FamilyHistorySleuth #Genealogist #TombstoneTourist #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 10/05/2025
Morning shadow, lush grass and the palest of stone. The view from my world today @teebylo.bsky.social 🪦 Bunhills Field Cemetery. City Road. London. UK. #GraveyardSquirrel #TeeAndTombstones #GraveAndBeautiful #StillSleuthing 🔍
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The Graveyard Squirrel @graveyardsquirrel.com · 17/04/2025
In Remembrance Of? Alas, their name may now be lost to history but their beautifully weathered memorial still remains. The view from my world today. 🪦 Parish Church of St Denys. York. UK. #DeadSleuth #GraveyardSquirrel #YorkyHistoryLass #TeeAndTombstones #GraveAndBeautiful #StillSleuthing 🔍
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