March 10, 2023 Caring for Gods Acre – Webinars For those of you who love to learn more about cemetery history – take a look at ‘Caring for Gods Acre‘ webinars coming up,…
March 7, 2023 The Brown Paper Parcel Social Media can be a mixed blessing – but something it is seriously good at is sharing discoveries or findings with groups of common…
February 28, 2023 Family History Talks There are lots of great talks coming up, given by the Kent Family History Society, including: ‘Making the most of a Will’, ‘Family history storytelling’…
February 24, 2023 A Glossary of Cemetery Phrases This great glossary of cemetery phrases has been compiled by the National Federation of Cemetery Friends. The list includes the type of trees and…
February 20, 2023 LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD WARS WITH THE CWGC On this International Day of Education (24th Jan), we’d like to take this opportunity to reintroduce you to some of the resources we offer…
February 16, 2023 Pechey Phipson – Her Work Goes On Back in the summer we were contacted by Ramesh, who was here in Folkestone UK, on holiday from India and wanted to see the…
October 30, 2022 Friends of Folkestone Cemetery – How We Started Written by Margaret Care and published in Autumn 2022 edition of GoFolkestone publication The group started in 2014 – it grew from two people…
October 30, 2022 Cemetery Regulations 1857 Regulations of the Folkestone Burial Board (Folkestone Chronicle 17 Jan 1857) Notices to be given, in the form prescribed, to the clerk to the…
October 30, 2022 Evocative Pictures These two evocative pictures were recently added to our collection. Volunteer Hugh said the image on the left “was given to me by a…
October 24, 2022 St John Colwood Bennett 1852-1919 Folkestone Old Cemetery, Cheriton Road, Area 20, Grave 1696 – unmarked A medical surgeon whose wife petitioned for divorce in 1889, after he’d been…
