Dr Edward Nason was a Surgeon he was my ancestor Dr Thomas Robert Nason's father he lies here with his father Major John Robert Nason his grandfather Rev Stephen Nason
Stephen Nason grave monument
(www.gravestonephotos.com) they lie interred in the church as Shakespeare and his family rev worked there as the reverend Shakespeare was moved but his family remain in the church with mine
https://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=1041 this is the church
Dr Thomas Robert Nason and some of his brothers moved to Australia with some of his brothers.
https://www.stratford-upon-avon.org/shakespeare-family-graves not related to Shakespeare
but related to Fanny Burney and her family
whose family a Nason married into in Australia Thomas Robert Nason's daughter. Lot of writers in Fanny's family in there own right I am proud of both the Nasons and the Burneys.
The girl who visited the church in my poem was my mother Susan Lawson who was on a school excursion. She moved to Australia and met my father there where I was born. I liked the irony or person visiting they stomping of their descendants ancestors.
Next is the grave of Dr Thomas Robert Nason the surgeons son my Great-great-great Grandfather. Snake Gully being near Ballarat in Victoria Australia.
Copyright Rachel Lawson Poet