Anyone who looks at gravestones in church or chapel burial grounds will observe a very frequent feature. It was once extremely common to add to the name of the deceased further details about where they were ‘of’ or ‘from’. Very frequently the phrase used was ‘of this parish’. One typical inscription reads: ‘Here lieth the Body of joan the wife of walter Williams of Baddon in the Parish of Brideftow’, to take an example dated 1774 from Lydford in west Dartmoor. Other inscriptions may take the form of ‘In Memory of [name], of this parish’, or ‘of the parish of …’. The wording can vary in a number of ways. Sometimes one finds the person, or his or her spouse or parents, being ascribed to a certain place rather than ‘this parish’, a place that may be a small settlement or even a house address, through to a large city. Assuming that the memorials have not suffered much erosion (which is often the case where limestone or sandstone monuments predominate), one will find such mention of place following many deceased people's names in most areas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.