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From: Mark S Urry <>
Subject: Re: DORSET-D Digest V98 #207
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:47:06 +0200


Hello all,

I'm a newcomer to this list but I also subscribe to the Isle of Wight
list where most of my family's origins are. However, I was a resident of
Wimborne Minster and Merley throughout my childhood.
Long before my time, other members of the URRY family are known to have
settled in Dorset and I would be grateful if any of you could help me
to find traces of them.
The principle areas where they seem to have settled are Dorchester,
Christchurch, Wimborne, Weymouth, Witchampton and Tarrant Monkton. Of
course, there may well be others.
The estates in Tarrant Monkton and Witchampton appear to have come to
Elizabeth URRY (1627-1690) from her mother Alice SCOVELL (d1658). They
were probably then passed on to her son, Thomas LUCY.
Connections with the other areas are of a much later period.
Just in case it hasn't already been posted on this list, here's a little
genealogical humour.

Funny Epitaphs

On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia:

Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good Die Young.

On the grave of Ann Mann in a London, England cemetery:

Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767

On the grave of Anna Wallace In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery:

The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna.

On the grave of Johnny Yeast in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery:

Here lies Johnny Yeast
Pardon me for not rising.

On the grave of Jonathan Blake in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery:

Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake.

On the grave of Butch in a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery:

Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw.

An epitaph to the lawyer, Sir John Strange, in England:

Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that is Strange.

On a gravestone in Stowe, Vermont, USA:

I was somebody.
Who, is no business of yours.

Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in
the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in
Tombstone, Arizona, USA:

Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No More.

On a gravestone in Georgia USA:

"I told you I was sick!"

John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne Minster cemetery, Dorset, England:

Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4 feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny.

On Margaret Daniel's grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia,
USA:

She always said her feet were killing her
but nobody believed her.

On the gravestone of Jonathan Fiddle in a cemetery in Hartscombe,
England:

On the 22nd of June
Jonathan Fiddle
Went out of tune.

On the gravestone of Anna Hopewell in Enosburg Falls, Vermont, USA:

Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.

On the gravestone of Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England:

Gone away
Owin' more
Than he could pay.

On the gravestone of an unpopular Beza Wood in Winslow, USA:

In Memory of Beza Wood
Departed this life
Nov. 2, 1837
Aged 45 yrs.
Here lies one Wood
Enclosed in wood
One Wood
Within another.
The outer wood
Is very good:
We cannot praise
The other.

On the 1880's gravestone of Jonathan Pease in Nantucket, Massachusetts,
USA:

Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there's only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God.

On the gravestone of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania, USA:

Ellen Shannon was fatally burned
March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with "R.E. Danforth's
Non Explosive Burning Fluid"

An epitaph to Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York, USA:

Born 1903--Died 1942
Looked up the elevator shaft to see if
the car was on the way down. It was.

In a cemetery in Thurmont, Maryland, USA:

Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up
And no place to go.

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Anyone interested in URRY connections might like to browse the web page
at http://www.marcireau.fr/urry/urry.htm

Mark URRY
La Rochelle, France

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