CEMETERIES
This is an ongoing project to locate and photograph the grave stones of the
Laughton family members. If you have access to other markers at different
cemeteries, please let me know.
On February 24, 2009 we received the first photographs of grave sites and/or
memorials from Orkney, Scotland. Details on the
location of this site and other family members I trust will follow!
The London Mount Pleasant Cemetery was found
via an Internet search and the grave site of Katie Campbell (2nd wife of John
Hugh Laughton) was identified. That location has now been added and the site
will be visited in the Spring of 2009.
On July 15, 2008 I went to the Niagara
Falls Fairview Cemetery to find and photograph the plots of John and Edward
Laughton. This information came via a tip in an obituary from Lindy
Laughton of Plano, Texas. John Laughton
1829 was the parent of each of John Hugh
Laughton 1859 and William Severn Laughton
1872, which lead to each of the Canadian and American Laughton clans.
On September 11, 2004 family members gathered at the Exeter cemetery to
intern the ashes of Charles Van Wyck and Maureen Montgomery. There are
photos on the web site that have not been edited or sorted. After the service in
Exeter, I went to Parkhill and took photographs of the historic family
plot of the John Hugh Laughton clan (the original Van Wyck Laughton clan).
 | Nelson, British Columbia
Here lies William Muir Laughton, a veteran of the First World War and the
Second World War. There are more of our family members in Nelson B.C. but
this is the only picture we have to date, thanks to Gerry Rempel from the
CEF Research Group. William's grave stone is a bit misleading as he was with
the CMR in WWI but was with the LER in WWII. We are working to correct his
registration - stay tuned!
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| Orkney Scotland Cemetery
A page has been set up for this site based on the photograph sent in from
Jack Petrie. Jack is the son of Annie Laughton (daughter of William 1888)
and John Arnold Petrie.
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| Walkerton Public Cemetery
The site visit to the Walkerton Public Cemetery was completed on June 15,
2009. Here we found details not only of the LAUGHTON clan but as well
the VAN WYCK clan. From those findings and details we were also able to go
back and locate additional information on the history of the Van Wyck Family
(we now know their names!). Not all of the family members were located, as
the LAUGHTON stones do not give great details and the VAN WYCK stones and
markers left questions.
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| London Mount Pleasant
Cemetery
This is the burial location for Katie May Campbell, the second wife of John
Hugh Laughton. It may also be the burial site of Malcolm Campbell Laughton,
a previously unknown member of the Laughton Clan. The information and photos
of Katie's grave marker were available on-line. It is anticipated a trip
will be made to the cemetery in the Spring of 2009.
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| Niagara
Falls Fairview Cemetery
The photographs from this site have now been sorted and summarized. I
will now have to go back and do Exeter and Parkhill. Also introduced
to this cemetery was the concept of GPS positioning of the site and grave
markers. The stones were also cleaned before being photographed. Note
that there are two distinct sites at Fairview - John Laughton and Edward
Laughton.
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| Exeter
Cemetery
These photographs show the headstone of George
Van Wyck Laughton (my grandfather) and his wife Mary Elizabeth Laughton.
The green box that you see in these photographs was there for the internment
of the ashes of Charles Van Wyck Laughton.
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| Parkhill
Cemetery |
The Parkhill photographs are shown as originals as well
as a set that are marked. The marked ones give the location of
the Laughton Headstone relative to the layout of the cemetery. GPS
was not in my tool kit at the time these photographs were taken, but it is now
and so I will return one day to determine that information. In
the meantime, the Parkhill information has been upgraded as of July 2008 to
show all the available information. We have used Google Earth
Coordinates until such time as a site visit can be arranged.
I will have to also find Harry Van Wyck Laughton (along
with his wife Mary and son Barent), who are reported to be in Bellville, Ontario
at a Mosoleum.
I would appreciate receiving cemetery information (or any
other details) from any other members of the Laughton clan. In particular,
the Laughton clan in the USA needs to be tracked.
