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Surnames: CHITWOOD
Classification: Cemetery
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2cI.2ACEB/624
Message Board Post:
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I photographed this gravestone in the Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Co., Oklahoma. Feel free to use this picture for your records.
This is one of the 118,042 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com
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What a wonderful trip you must have had! I am so glad that you found
Chetwode! You don't mention finding the (Chetwode) manor house - it's
not in Chetwode itself but is a mile or so away. We would not have
found it if someone at the Priory hadn't told us about it. Huge place,
lots and lots of land around it. If I can find my photos, I will post
them - if I can figure out how. Or else make copies and send them to
you. Isn't the church quite wonderful? Did you see the plaque on the
wall in the smaller room? An American Chitwood had donated funds for
something or other in the church. I will look for that, too.
There are no Chetwodes living close by that anybody I talked to knew of.
Not surprising, I guess, as they mostly had moved up to Staffordshire,
to Oakley Hall, many generations ago. Used the Chetwode place for
vacations and such. I did not remember what year it left the Chetwode
family, but you filled in that piece of information.
Interesting that you mention the Tower of London. I have been there,
but did not see the plaque that you mentioned. We will be going to
London in a few weeks, and I will make it a point to re-visit the Tower
and look for the plaque. Thanks for telling of that.
I also did not know of the Chetwode Chapel - you mean in the Tower of
London complex? I will have to look for that.
While we are in England (scattering the cremains of my dearest
Significant Other, who died very unexpectedly in England when we were
there last fall) his sister and I will be spending a chunk of time doing
genealogy stuff. My total focus will be on the Chetwode family, HOPING
to find that link between the English Chetwodes and the American
Chitwoods. It's about time that one of us should find it, we have
searched so long and so hard. Wish me luck!!!
Nancy
keithnancy(a)t-one.net
b.chitwood(a)mchsi.com wrote:
>We just got back from visiting London - and most of all Chetwode. Didn't have
>time to get to Oakley Manor unfortunately. Chetwode, which was "home" to Bill
>and also me on my mother's side, was all we could have hoped for. Only the
>newer tombstones were readable - the oldest we could find couldn't read the
>name but it was from 1715 - 20 years old and died from wounds. I did take some
>pictures and will try and attach a couple of them - don't want to tie up
>mailboxes.
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>Tower was wonderful - and a "special happening occurred. Bill got really tired
>of walking up and down all the narrow stone stairs in the towers so kept
>finding places for him to sit. Wanted to go into the chapel by the green and
>were told not open - then the guard said if we wanted to join a tour we could
>get in - lo and behold one arrived at the green and the guide started
>explaining about all our relatives who had been beheaded there and buried in
>the chapel. Bill decided to sit it out and let me go in alone. At the last
>minute he changed his mind and joined me. Then, when I was sliding into a back
>pew he said no, lets go up front. As we were sitting in the front pew I glanced
>over his shoulder and saw a plack relating to Field Marshal Chetwode of
>Chetwode - keeper of the tower! Later, when we were in the Chetwode chapel we
>found two of his kids buried there - or at least placks on the wall.
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>Westminster was as great as I had remembered it - only this time I didn't
>mostly have it to myself and no monk appeared to show me the way into special
>gardens.
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>And then we have Chetwode! Hired a driver, Clive Roberts [possibly a distant
>cousin on Malin side] and two of our friends from Maryland, went with us.
>Countryside was beautiful - acres upon acres of yellow
>flowers blooming. Nobody had ever heard of Chetwode - even those living a few
>miles away and Clive had a heck of a time finding it in the map - but no
>problem getting there. The church, St. Mary 7 St. Nicholas, was open. They had
>a write up about Chetwode - it was first recorded in the Doomsday Book in 1086
>and the feudal tenant was Robert of Thaon and there were two smallholders,
>seven villagers and six slaves [currently there are 8 houses]. By 1166 the
>manor was held by Robert de Chetwode. The family held the land for eight
>hundred years - the final sale was in 1966. Parts of the church and priory date
>back to about 1240.
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>According to Lindsey Graham whom we met coming into Chetwode, there are no
>Chitwoods living there now or in her lifetime.
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