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Misunderstanding
editOne of the problems with quoting the popular press is that they often lack historical knowledge and even what might be termed "general" knowledge. This is a classic example of quoted and citd material from an inadequate source.
An interesting story surrounds Eliza. Apparently, "after her groom failed to turn up for their wedding breakfast, she left the breakfast on the table until the day she died."
The writer plainly misunderstands what is meant by the term "wedding breakfast". A wedding breakfast is the name traditionally given to the first meal shared by a couple after the wedding ie. generaly a sumptuous banquet. It wasn't breakfast that the groom failed to show up for. It was the wedding itself. So Eliza (like Miss havisham) left the "Wedding Breakfast" (ie. the wedding banquet, including the cake) on the table. Amandajm (talk) 03:47, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Bodies
editThe quote (now removed) from a local resident who said that "What most people don't know is, the bodies are still there under the park" is not quite right. When the monuments were removed from the park, a number of families took up the option to exhume the remains of family members to be reinterred within the wall. Because of the nature of the soil, there were very few remains to be found. Amandajm (talk) 12:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)