Wikipedia talk:Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons/London
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Roberta Wedge (WMUK) in topic Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Hi! I'll be looking intermittently here and in the "Articles worked on" section for things to help with tidying up etc. So please just ask. Hope it's going well, Johnbod (talk) 12:09, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm touching up the images on this & we have this image on Commons, apparently taken in Newington Green's churchyard. But the article says she was buried in a "family vault" with a memorial inscription in the church later. Was she moved subsequently? Or is the photo's name and file info wrong? Johnbod (talk) 12:20, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
- Hello, just seen this in tidying up various year-end bits. I have visited the grave. Newington Green and Stoke Newington were two separate villages a mile apart, known for their Dissenters and Quakers respectively. Since Victorian times they have been subsumed in London sprawl, and many people confuse or conflate the two places. ALB maintained her ties to Newington Green Unitarian Church for decades after the death of her husband, who had been its minister. However, it never had a graveyard. She, along with other members of its early congregation, was buried in the churchyard of the parish church, St Mary's, on the main street, Stoke Newington Church Street. (I believe she lived on that street, near her brother and co-author.) Had she died a little later, she might have been buried down the road at Abney Park Cemetery, founded in 1840. So the above-ground brick structure, which has been repaired since the publication of McCarthy's 2009 biography, is outside the CofE Stoke Newington building, but the wordy marble inscription is inside the Unitarian Newington Green one. Roberta Wedge (WMUK) (talk) 12:12, 17 December 2014 (UTC)