I spotted this gravestone in Bingley Cemetery. I know I shouldn't laugh... but I did. Humour is so important in these precarious times. I don't know what Marjorie's maiden name was but maybe she should have retained it?
Now I've got the nursery rhyme in my head!
Poor old Marjorie! She must have experienced plenty of ups and downs in her 90 years.
ReplyDeleteMarjorie was a widow for a long time!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry not to know a Marjorie Dore nursery rhyme. I like that the daughter (or probably her survivors) put her own name on the same headstone as her parents.
ReplyDeleteFor Barbara: This is a very old English nursery rhyme, often sung on the BBC program "Listen with Mother" when I was a child. "See saw, Marjorie Daw, Johnny shall have a new master. He shall earn but a penny a day, if he cannot work any faster". In those days there were 240 pennies to the pound, so Johnny would have received very little indeed!
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