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Possibly the gravestone of James Hambling (1762 - 1837)

When I visited Blackawton churchyard in 2012 I had it in my mind that the "gravestone" of William Bartlett Hambling was a metal one near the south porch, that I had seen this on a previous visit, proably soon after my parents retired to Dartmouth in 1988, and thought how appropriate for a blacksmith.
This memory was clearly wrong, it may well be that it was his father James who had a metal tablet. This time I saw no metal "gravestone", but did see this one, which appears to lack a metal plaque, and was close to the gravestones of James' grandson William Baker Hambling and his family.
Hopefully somewhere amongst my notes I will come across a transcription; I'm sure I don't have a photo but maybe someone has?

Status: Located
Plot: A12 (I think)

Blackawton Churchyard, Blackawton, Devon, England

Notes: Thanks to some students from the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth some years ago, a plan of the churchyard with an index to the names is hanging up at the back of the Church; plot numbers given here are as on that plan.
Mapping the grave locations some years after viewing graves / taking photos I have used the BRNC plan to help me, but cannot be precise - especially given that a number are under the canopy of a tree.

Cemetery Photos

	Thumb	Description
1		Blackawton Churchyard
2		Plan of graves in Blackawton Churchyard If using to find family graves, be warned it has some errors, especially where a person was given a surname as a 2nd Christian name - these tend to have been mis-understood as double-barrelled surnames and indexed as such. e.g. my ancestor William Bartlett HAMBLING is indexed under 'B' instead of 'H'. Some have been mis-understood as the whole surname, e.g. John Hingston STABB, shown on the gravestone as John Hingston, son of John and Elizabeth Stabb, has been taken to be John HINGSTON. (In other words, search for middle names shown in some way as a person's surn ame and you should find them). In a few instances two people has been indexed as one, e.g. the entry 'BURGOINE J M' is for the stone for John and Mary Burgoyne, 'BURGOYNE C E' is for the stone for sisters Ellen and Caroline.

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