Spinster hunting/haunting in Wirksworth Cemetery. I'd like to find out more about Doris. Her memorial is added to the side of a tall obelisk type headstone with a stone urn on top.
I'm always struck by wife/mother/grandmother and husband/father/grandfather text (understandably) on headstones... but what if someone is none of those things? I've seen sister/brother, daughter/son, aunt/uncle, niece/nephew and once (heart swelling and wonderfully), friend.
Pondering those without family behind or in front of them. Who will remember them and who decides the text on their headstones in a pronatalist world?
I'm intrigued by the labelling of Doris as spinster in 1967. Was she one of the generation of women who lost their potential partner in the First World War? Will do some digging.
Spinster
Wirksworth Cemetery, Derbyshire
Sister, Aunt, Friend
St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley, London
