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Family History

Polesworth Abbey welcomes visitors and email enquiries from those who are researching family history. Please do get in touch as see if we can help.

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• A CD Rom is available with full details of Churchyard Monuments inside the Abbey and in the Churchyard up to 1991

• The CD Rom gives details of each Gravestone and memorial together with the inscription and location in the Churchyard.

• Over 120 pages of Family History Information 

• The CDs also have some ‘extras’: 

  • Churchyard Plans
  • Churchyard History
  • Photo Gallery

The Family History CD is available at the Visitor Centre or by post from Polesworth Abbey Churchyard Inscriptions, Polesworth Abbey Church, High Street, Polesworth B78 1DU price £8.50 (including p&p) Cheques to ‘Polesworth PCC’ please.

Church yard from above

 

The Visitor Center is open:

Tuesday - Friday 11.00 am - 4.00 pm; Saturdays 10.30 - 1.00 pm; and Sunday afternoons 2.00 pm 3.30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lord, help me dig into the past, Churchyard from above

And sift the sands of time, 

That I might find the roots that made,

This family tree of mine.

 

Lord, help me trace the ancient roads,

On which my fathers trod, 

And led them through so many lands,

To find our present sod.

 

Lord, help me find an ancient book,

Or dusty manuscript,

That's safely hidden now away, 

In some forgotten crypt.

 

Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts,

My soul, when I can't find,

The missing link between some name,

That ends the same as mine.

Dear Ancestor:

Your tombstone stands among the rest, neglected and alone.
 The name and date are chiseled out on polished, marbled stone.
 It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn.
 You did not know that I exist, you died, and I was born.
 Yet each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone.
 Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
 Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago
 Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so.
 I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
 That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you.
Anon