Nostalgic memories of Ashby Puerorum's local history

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Dear John & Fred, These are also my families & I visit Lincolnshire almost every year. Henry Tasker & Frances Horne (1815) are my great great grandparents & the grave beneath the chestnut tree is two of their children, Lawis & Mary. Two other children are Robert & Sarah so I'm thinking Henry may be your Robert's younger brother. Now Sarah is my great grandmother & her ...see more
My Tasker and Lawies families come from the tiny village of Ashby Puerorum so I went to see the place in 1971 when I first became interested in tracing my family tree. There is a beautiful church - St Andrew's - surrounded by a lovely churchyard and I enjoyed searching among the gravestones until I found two for my family. I have not returned there since but it wqold be interesting to see as I planted some dafodills on the graves back in 1971. I wonder if they are still there!