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I know this is out of the area but someone may have a connection.
We have found on our property amongst a load of stone, a gravestone. It is not a headstone, but what I think would be classed as a kerbstone from around the side of the grave. There is only an inscription on one side, the other being blank. It reads " George Coleman Who passed away April 24th 1915. Aged 72 yrs". How long it has been here I have no idea, other than it was here when we came 9yrs ago. We live in the Leyland/Chorley area so it could have come from anywhere around here. I don't know of any churchyards where the stones have been removed in the locality, so how it came to be here is a mystery. BUT, if George Coleman is one of your ancestors then please contact me.
Gloria

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Freaky!!
Have you done the usual searches to try and pin him down Gloria?

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Mel

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I have put the same message on LFHHS and had some interesting feedback. This is what I have been given by two helpful people.

Here is a GRO Index entry from FreeBMD:
Deaths Jun 1915
Coleman George 72 Chorley 8e 601

There is a George Coleman of the correct age living with his wife Ann and
son George in Harpurhey in the 1901 census. He was born in Pendleton. In
1881 he also had sons, James, Elijah and Charles H. and a daughter Mary
living with him in Ancoats. In 1861 he was living with his wife in the
household of his parents Solomon and Ellen Coleman, together with his
sister, Harriet and brother, John. It looks as if it could be this George's
name on the curb stone. Perhaps he was buried in the grave of a relative
and his name was recorded on the edge.

Ref your gravestone, I remember when the M6 Motorway was built a number of old gravestones were used as ballast in the bridge which crosses the A49 just north of Leyland. When some repairs to the bridge were undertaken a few years ago, these were rediscovered. As the bridge may be near to where you live this may be the source of this stone. An article in one on the local newspapers reported on this find ( I don't remember which newspaper) and it may have stated which cemetery the stones came from.

I replied to the latter saying there were no marks to suggest it had been used as ballast. But I did wonder if it had been taken from a graveyard when the M6 was extended southwards from Leyland. I think I may go to Chorley library to see if they can shed any light on it. Won't be in the next week though.
Will keep you posted.

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.