| • 1842: Irish "Potato Famine" starts | • 1847: British Museum founded | • 1848: Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto | • 1851: Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park | • 1854: Start of Crimean War | • 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species published | • 1861: American Civil War begins | • 1865: Salvation Army founded | • 1869: Suez Canal opened | • 1871: Trades Unions legalised | • 1872: Secret ballots introduced for elections | • 1873: Dr Livingstone dies | • 1876: Bell invents telephone | • 1878: Electric light bulb invented | • 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation | • 1884: Fabian Society founded | • 1887: Queen Victoria's Jubilee | • 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opened |
| Description | Cross | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inscription | Sacred to ....y of MARY ....KER the beloved wife of .... Crocker who died Sep 29 .... 71 years. Also of the above .... Crocker who died May .... 8.. years. | ||
| Notes | Location: South. Cut out cross with IHS damaged. Mary of Whitecross, Benjamin? of Melplash. | ||
Internees | |||
| Name | Date of death | Age | Residence |
| Mary Crocker | 29 Sep 1866 | 71 | |
| Benjamin? Crocker | May 1873 | 84 | |
Transcription by Morag Curtis
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