The May 2019 Family Tree Trip, Part B, 'A Visit to St Augustine's of Burrough Green  to Place Flower
Channel: semw52
Date: 23/06/2019

What an amazing visit---every time I visit I discover another family person--I have passed certain family graves  several times not realizing they are  family but as the family tree research progresses the Ancestors  surface.Today I was just about to leave the church and decided to take another walk around the churchyard and it wasn't until the very last minute that my eye caught the gravestone of a 1st cousin but even then I failed to see her daughter in the grave next door--and it was a good week after returning home that I spotted the grave when examining my video footage----I always feel a bit sad when leaving the village because it's not as if I can just pop up the road its several hundred miles away--4/5 hours drive  along several motorways from Somerset......So each visit is always special and I will  return to continue the research....Since this visit I have made contact with Millie and Ernest Smith's other daughter via ancestry and the DNA route........An amazing find--- close to the old Oak ancestors graves are the graves of my 1st cousin  Millie, her husband Ernest and one of their daughters  as well---Millie originally from London but  sent as a land army girl in WW11 to work on the fields of Burrough Green where she met  her husband--a local lad and they ran the Bull Inn which 100 years +++ earlier was owned and run by my Oak farming family---As far as I know Millie has no DNA connection to my Oak family but we share my Dad's side of the tree---Millie's Mum Amelia was my Dad's sister....The Oak ancestors are on my Mum's side......This is why I  love and enjoy family tree research--all the history and discoveries.....