Tombstone Tuesday: Frederick Read – Champion Duck Breeder

For today’s Tombstone Tuesday theme I want to show the tombstone of my Great Uncle Frederick Read.  He was born in 1866 at Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire and died in 1908 at Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire.  He and his wife Annie Sophia Ridgway (1868 – 1955) had ten children and Great Uncle Frederick became a Champion Duck Breeder.

I have been informed that he was the originator of what is known (certainly in the UK) as the Aylesbury Duck and he also used to write about breeding ducks in newspapers and magazines.

original photograph in my private collection - copyright 2010

Great Uncle Frederick is buried at Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire and the photo I show here is the Inscription part.  Unfortunately, although we took a number of photos of his grave and the Church they were taken with a non-digital camera and are not really clear enough to show on this blog. 

Inscription on Great Uncle Frederick’s gravestone

original photograph in my private collection - copyright 2010

My transcription for this is: 

In Loving Memory of

FREDERICK READ

died Feb 14th 1908   aged 41 years

_________

AT REST

_________

also SOPHIA

died June 26th 1955   Aged 88 years

This next photograph is of one of Great Uncle Frederick’s adverts that he placed in various places.

original photograph in my private collection - copyright 2010