Mr Slinky

I finally got up my nerve and tackled the Anglican records left by the minister after John Seaman. I am still not entirely sure what this man's name was as his handwriting most closely resembles a stretched out slinky. I have gathered information from this remarkable script for 11 more burials. I can almost forgive Reverend Slinky because, while he often omits where people are from and his handwriting is wretched, he gives places of burial and often cause of death. So of these 11 new burials between 1880 and 1881 I'm pretty sure none of them are at Reilly Cemetery. Three burials are listed as at the common burying ground/ common graveyard of ----- village. No capitals, two words. I have no idea where these people are but they were buried by an Anglican minister and at least two of them died of diptheria. The third falls into the same time period but does not specify cause of death. This fellow also never calls Holy Trinity, Lascelles that name, he calls it the Church at Masham. I'm fairly certain of this as for the five records he has left of people buried at the Church at Masham, there are 2 headstones at Holy Trinity Lascelles for commemorating 4 of 'em. That or there's a mysterious anglican church at Masham of which we have never heard. Now, just to be sure I'm leaving no stone unturned, it's fair to mention that normally I would take the mention of burial at Masham as at Reilly cemetery-- in the case of this minister there is far more proof that people are not at Reilly Cemetery --the Colbert family (3 of the 5 diptheria cases I mentioned above) has 12 family members commemorated at Lascelles. Not once does this minister ever refer to Holy Trinity, Lascelles, which is part of the diocese of which he was priest-- I think he just called it the church at Masham. UNLESS, it occurs to me, he is burying people at Reilly Cemetery and the Neeley and Colbert families got it wrong...I can see one being in error as this has happened before, but two? Considerably less likely.

Ahh the joys of archival research...